fontfor: Find fonts which can show a specified character and preview them in terminal or br...

FontFor

Find fonts which can show a specified character and preview them in browser.

This is port from my early python script called which_fonts_support , but with some improvements:

• Write in Rust, safe and faster
• Use Fontconfig library instead of depends on fc-list command installed
• Support preview in shell (powered by FreeType ), no browser needed

Install or Update

cargo install -f fontfor

Usage

Basic

$ fontfor א
Font(s) support the character "א"(U+05D0, 1488, 0xD7 0x90):
Arial                       with 4 styles
Arial Hebrew                with 3 styles
Arial Hebrew Desk Interface with 3 styles
Arial Hebrew Scholar        with 3 styles
Arial Unicode MS            with 1 style
Corsiva Hebrew              with 2 styles
Courier New                 with 4 styles
DejaVu Sans                 with 8 styles
FreeMono                    with 4 styles
FreeSans                    with 4 styles
FreeSerif                   with 4 styles
HanaMinA                    with 1 style
LastResort                  with 1 style
Lucida Grande               with 2 styles
Microsoft Sans Serif        with 1 style
New Peninim MT              with 4 styles
Raanana                     with 2 styles
TW-Kai                      with 1 style
TW-Sung                     with 1 style
Tahoma                      with 2 styles
Times New Roman             with 4 styles

Character Input Format

You can use the following formats for the character:

• Character: א
• Unicode scalar value
  • U+XXXXXX : U+5d0 , U+05d0 , U+0005d0
  • Direct input

    1488
    0o2720
    0b010111010000
    

• UTF8 bytes: 0xd790

Show All Font Styles

add -v flag to show all font style.

We don't show screenshot picture here because it's a bit long.

Preview in Browser

Add -p flag to enable browser preview:

Preview in Shell

Add -t flag to enter tui mode for preview in shell:

And you can change render mode to ASCII(10 Level):

ASCII(70 Level):

Or moon-render mode:

LICENSE

GPLv3 or later.

See COPYING .