FontFor

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

This is port from my early python script called whichfontssupport, 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

Dependencies

This program needs Fontconfig and FreeType library to run, and some of their deps needs cmake to compile, so we need to install them before compile:

• macOS: brew install cmake freetype fontconfig
• Linux: Please refer to the docs of your Linux distribution to figure out how to install them
• Win: Do not support Windows for now

Install or Update

bash cargo install -f fontfor

Usage

Basic

bash $ 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
  • Dec format: 1488
  • Oct format: 0o2720
  • Binary format: 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:

![browser-preview-screenshot]

Preview in Shell

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

![tui-mono-mode]

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

![tui-ascii-10-mode]

ASCII(70 Level):

![tui-ascii-70-mode]

Or moon-render mode:

![tui-moon-mode]

LICENSE

GPLv3 or later.

See COPYING.