Fontmatrix
Sign in to saveFontmatrix is a font manager for Linux desktop environments. It can manage fonts installed system-wide or for individual user accounts. It relies on FreeType to render font samples, and on Qt for its user interface. Bruce Byfield hailed the creation of Fontmatrix with an article concluding with: "Finally, the long wait for a GNU/Linux font manager is ending."
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Fontmatrix is also useful for type designers and enthusiasts, because it simplifies testing of OpenType features and allows comparing fonts glyph by glyph which is extremely useful for learning type design. The project was originally developed by Pierre Marchand between 2007 and 2011. It is currently in maintenance mode and isn't worked on by any actual programmer. Windows and macOS builds require new contributors. Flatpak build is available on Flathub, AppImage build could be created by interested contributors.
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- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix
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- Screenshot Fontmatrix.png
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Q201904
- operating system
- Linux
- source code repository URL
- github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix
- inception
- 2007-00-00
- programmed in
- Q2407
- software version identifier
- 0.6.0
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Fontmatrix is a font manager for Linux desktop environments. It can manage fonts installed system-wide or for individual user accounts. It relies on FreeType to render font samples, and on Qt for its user interface. Bruce Byfield hailed the creation of Fontmatrix with an article concluding with: "Finally, the long wait for a GNU/Linux font manager is ending."
Fontmatrix lets users label a font with multiple tags (similar to Gmail labels), which may be activated or deactivated as sets. It also allows the user to toggle features of OpenType fonts for testing purposes. As of November 2008, the PANOSE classification present in fonts may also be used to select them by similarity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fontmatrix” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.