Font viewer on linux

10 Best Linux Font Tools (Updated 2020)

In the days when Linux was a fledgling operating system, font handling was often identified as a major weakness. It was true that Linux then had problems with dealing with TrueType fonts, its font subsystem was prehistoric compared to its competitors, there was a dearth of decent fonts, difficulties in adding and configuring fonts made it almost impossible for beginners to improve matters for themselves, and jagged fonts with no anti-aliasing just added to a rather amateurish looking desktop.

Fortunately, the situation is considerably better these days, with a better quality of user interface typography. With the continuing improving FreeType font engine producing high quality output, natively supporting scalable font formats like TrueType, Linux is making great strides although there’s still some way to go. Dealing with fonts under Linux can sometimes be tricky.

Another factor that has contributed to Linux becoming more font friendly is improvements made in font management and editing software. Font management software lets users browse and preview fonts, to organise them by groups, to activate and deactivate fonts, make comparisons between fonts, find fonts suitable for a specific purpose, as well as generating font samples and font books. Many distributions have hundreds of fonts pre-installed. This type of software makes it simple to manage and evaluate these fonts. In this article, we have highlighted the best font management software available for Linux, as well as identifying our favorite font editor.

To provide an insight into the software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 top font software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for users who want to mange the fonts on their computer. We give our highest recommendation to HarfBuz, fontpreview, and FontForge.

Let’s explore the 10 font software utilities at hand. For each application we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources.

Источник

А чем смотреть шрифты и как их устанавливать?

А чем смотреть шрифты и как их устанавливать?

Смотреть, в смысле поглядеть, что сейчас есть в системе (про xfontsel знаю, но для целей использования шрифтов в xelatex это не очень удобно).

Есть, скажем progmatapro.ttf — как сделать так, что xelatex его увидел. Есть ли пошаговая инструкция?

P.S. Всё в Ubuntu 12.04

Есть, скажем progmatapro.ttf — как сделать так, что xelatex его увидел.

/.fonts и fc-cache не работают?

А где потом ихние описания посмотреть? В смысле как их система цепляет?

Копировать не пробовал, так как не знаю про установку руками вообще ничего. Где-нибудь есть внятное описание процесса?

Я использую для этого программу Fontmatrix. Устанавливаю — тупо копирую файлы шрифтов (или делаю симлинки) в каталог /usr/share/fonts/ (

/.fonts/) и затем делаю fc-cache.

А где потом ихние описания посмотреть?

fc-list, fc-query, fc-match, fc-*

Где-нибудь есть внятное описание процесса?

/.fonts можно создавать подкаталоги, это помогает избежать помойки.

Графические утилиты под гном есть, но названий не помню, ищите в репозитории.

У меня в KDE шрифты можно посмотреть программой kfontview. В GNOME не знаю и открывать сеанс GNOME, чтобы посмотреть, не хочу: открыто много вкладок в браузере. Поискал в репозитории, нашёл по запросу font view следующее:

Как устанавливать — я думал, автор книги про LATEX знает это лучше меня. Я всегда думал что шрифты устанавливаются простым копированием в каталог /usr/share/fonts/.

А причём здесь книга? Классического LaTeX мне было достаточно до этого. Да и по хорошему Computer Modern альтернативы для кириллицы+математика как бы и нет.

Да, зря написал. Мне это напомнило сообщения «три звезды нафлудил, а простых вещей не знаешь», которые пишут мне.

Есть font-manager неплохой, ещё что-то в ubuntu software center видел.
Нет, ну можно просто копировать в

/.fonts, font-manager скорее для тех, кому приходится работать с большими коллекциями шрифтов. Он позволяет группировать шрифты, включать-отключать группами. Т.е. есть у нас допустим 100500 шрифтов, если все их засунуть в .fonts то как минимум задолбаемся работать с диалогами выбора шрифта. А в font-manager можно классифицировать их, просматривать и включать нужные для текущей работы.

А где потом ихние описания посмотреть? В смысле как их система цепляет?

Описания чего? То, что ты укажешь в качестве названия шрифта зетеху,
он будет искать с помощью fontconfig. Поэтому копирование в .fonts
работает.

Источник

How to view a TTF font file?

Is there an application to simply preview a font from a TTF file without installing it?

7 Answers 7

I use character maps heavily and decides to make one which you access from anywhere using a web interface and requires no installation. Works best on Chrome.

• Select your own font file
• Provides font and character information
• Character copy-able
• Supports TTF/OTF
• Supports Icon fonts
• Simple interface
• No installation necessary
• No server upload necessary

gnome-font-viewer (part of GNOME of course) can do this (this is the default association for fonts under GNOME); indeed, it comes with a button to install the font, which obviously wouldn’t make sense if the font needed to be installed already.

fontmatrix lets you organize groups of fonts to be installed or uninstalled, and you can preview them and see their features, whether installed or not.

Most font editors, like fontforge, certainly don’t require the fonts to be installed to open them up and look at them.

There are others, I’m sure.

display is part of imagemagick , so you will need it to be installed.

Answer possible thanks to this forum post.

This problem has been bugging me for years, because it is only every few months that I want to preview a font and I never remembered which software solved it last time, so I made a video version of this answer to make it easier to find in the future.

Источник

Font viewer for font collectors?

I have a huge font collection and would like to be able to view them in an efficient manner rather than opening a file one by one.

What would be the best font viewer aside from fontypython , which unfortunately has a Mojibake bug on fonts with multibyte characters.

10 Answers 10

I use Font Manager

I use character maps heavily and decided to make one which you access from anywhere using a web interface and requires no installation.

Features

• Select your own font file
• Provides font and character information
• Character copy-able
• Supports TTF/OTF
• Supports Icon fonts
• Smooth interface
• No installation necessary
• No server upload necessary

Screenshot

Web browsers are good at this. Sample script whose output can be saved as a simple HTML page and viewed in a local browser:

The script takes an optional first argument, the fc-list pattern to filter on. For example passing :spacing=100 as the argument generates an HTML page of all installed monospace fonts, or pass nothing and see all fonts.

There’s always Fontmatrix (Github). It has a slightly different feature-set to fontypython but I like it.

To install it from the repos, run:

Your should also give a try to gnome-specimen (also available in Debian)

Regular Ubuntu (and variants) repositories include (at least with current LTS release 20.04) programs font-viewer and gnome-font-viewers .

Both can be installed using regular package tools, including apt install as root, and called from your file manager through usual mechanisms, to preview font files from any directory.

They can also be called from command-line:

Incidentally, I happen to have encountered some fonts (partial encoding of a subset of a character set, extracted from a PDF file) that display well in font-viewer and show all characters substituted in gnome-font-viewer (and same for the PDF file in most PDF viewers).

Источник

Arch Linux

You are not logged in.

#1 2009-01-29 20:23:30

Simple Font Viewer

This may be a dump question, but does anyone know a simple font viewer? When I was using KDE I just needed to click on a font file and I could see what the font looked like. Now I switched to xfce (with Thunar as file manager) and there is no such programme. I do not seek a fancy font management tool or something like that. I am sure I just need to pick the right Gnome package, just: which one is it?

Thank you very much in advance!

#2 2009-01-29 20:25:14

Re: Simple Font Viewer

You could try gnome-specimen in the AUR, or gtk2fontsel.

#3 2009-01-29 20:28:00

Re: Simple Font Viewer

There’s fontilus in the AUR but it depends on gnome such and such. May want to see how much it would cost you to install that one.

arch linux — please read this and this — twice — then ask questions.
—
http://rsontech.net | http://github.com/rson

#4 2009-01-29 20:38:52

Re: Simple Font Viewer

Wow, thanks for the quick answers! Gnome specimen seems to be a bit too much. As I said, I do not need a big tool to manage my fonts or even to compare them. I just want to have a look at a font before I decide if I want to install it. So, gtk2fontselect is not the right tool for me either, because it just lists all fonts that are already installed.

Fontilus is a bit odd. I installed it, but how do I use it? Does it work without nautilus anyway?

#5 2009-01-29 20:42:33

Re: Simple Font Viewer

I have no clue, I simply searched the aur for «font» and looked for things claiming to be viewers.

arch linux — please read this and this — twice — then ask questions.
—
http://rsontech.net | http://github.com/rson

#6 2009-01-29 20:53:58

Re: Simple Font Viewer

Ja, I did that too. I also did a quick seach on google on how to use that Fontilus, but I thought this whole question is way to simple at the first place. I mean, any standard Gnome or KDE installation can view a font in Nautilus or Konqueror/Dolphin, right? So I thought I am just to stupid to find the right programme for xfce .

#7 2009-01-29 22:34:13

Re: Simple Font Viewer

have a look at the link. alpha software, but does the baisc things.

#8 2009-01-29 22:40:25

Re: Simple Font Viewer

[marst@iguane python]$ tupac font viewer
::* repo «local» has been updated
::* repo «core» has been updated
::* repo «extra» has been updated
::* repo «community» has been updated
. saving
1 community/opcion 1.1.1-4
A font viewer written in java
2 aur/fonter 1.7-1 (1 votes)
An interactive viewer and editor for console fonts (8×16 .fnt)
3 aur/fontilus 0.4-2 (17 votes)
Font viewer for Gnome. Also known as gnome-font-viewer
4 aur/fontypython 0.3.6-2 (5 votes)
A font viewer and manager
==> Enter the package numbers you want to install. Separate choices with a space. Example: 1 2 5 14
==:

#9 2009-01-30 00:20:13

Re: Simple Font Viewer

#10 2009-01-30 00:44:12

Re: Simple Font Viewer

opcion is pretty good (need java). can’t remember if that’s in AUR or I installed it myself. or just plain old xfontsel is useful for config files, etc.

#11 2009-01-30 00:53:35

Re: Simple Font Viewer

That is most definitely not what he is looking for, unless xfontsel has some weird .ttf file preview feature I’ve never heard of.

#12 2009-01-30 19:53:28

Re: Simple Font Viewer

Thank you for all your answers, but this is still not right. I was aware of all of the programmes you mentioned (except for gfont-viewer). I tried them and most of them do not display fonts that are not already installed. Only Opcion seems to be able to do that and there I have to pick the font file (only TTF, no OTF supported) from a menu. Opcion does not accept a font location as a parameter.

Well, it seems my simple problem is not as simple as it appears to be. I honestly thought I could take such a preview programme for granted. May be I am going to ask this questsion again in a xfce/Thunar forum or something.

#13 2009-01-30 20:57:46

Re: Simple Font Viewer

i like opticon but you’re right about picking it from a menu. report back if you find a good lightweight alternative; i’d be interested

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-01-30 20:59:23)

Источник