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Font management software allows its users to view a font in multiple ways. Users can inspect the font in more detail, such as looking at the fonts glyphs , or comparing another font. Font management software may also provide detail on the glyph count of a font, if the font can be embedded (such as in a PDF), or the creator of the font.
Fontconfig ships with eight command line utilities to manage and query fonts and the font configuration of the system: fc-list: Lists all fonts fontconfig knows about or all fonts matching a pattern. fc-match: Matches font-pattern (empty pattern by default) using the normal fontconfig matching rules to find the most appropriate font available.
FontForge is a FOSS font editor which supports many common font formats. Developed primarily by George Williams until 2012, FontForge is free software and is distributed under a mix of the GNU General Public License Version 3 and the 3-clause BSD license. [2]
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
A font manager is a piece of software that allows users to group fonts by certain characteristics, and allows easy activation and deactivation of fonts to conserve system resources. Pages in category "Font managers"
The tool is usually useful for entering special characters. [1] It can be opened via the command-line interface or Run command dialog using the 'charmap' command.. The "Advanced view" check box can be used to inspect the character sets in a font according to different encodings (), including Unicode code ranges, to locate particular characters by their Unicode code point and to search for ...
Next came TransType, [4] a font converter for moving fonts between TrueType, OpenType, and Type 1 formats and between Macintosh and Windows platforms. A few shorter-lived and more specialized font converters followed: FONmaker, for converting vector fonts into bitmaps; FontFlasher, for converting “normal” vector fonts into pixelated vector ...
A font editor is a class of application software specifically designed to create or modify font files. Font editors differ greatly depending on if they are designed to edit bitmap fonts or outline fonts. Most modern font editors deal with the outline fonts. Bitmap fonts uses an older technology and are most commonly used in console applications.