For a specific task I want to select a decent font. For that I want to compare the text “E G PM” for all my installed fonts (or even more) on a Linux system (Ubuntu in this case). Especially the bold face of a font (if it has any) will more likely match my requirements.
A quick visual viewing will probably sort 90% out already, so I was thinking of seeing a list of my string in the different font faces available on my system.
The font viewers/managers I tried are not up for the task. Which app could help me here or how can I quickly solve my problem otherwise?
The apps I tried are:
- fontmatrix
- version 0.6.0+svn20110930 (0.9.99)
- a bug hinders your configured text to be shown (font name is always shown)
- it does not show the bold face of a font in the list (just regular)
- gnome-specimen
- you have to add each font face individually (2-3 clicks) to seem them
- you see substituted fonts (if glyph is not in font) without being warned/told
- fontypython crashes at startup on this Ubuntu bionic system
- fontmanager.app is unusable in i3 window manager
- gwaterfall
- text is fixed to “Lazy dog…”
- needs each font selected individually (4 clicks at least)
- font-manager
- has a great browse mode, but in that mode it doesn’t show your own text (only font name)
- gnome-font-viewer can’t set text
- typecatcher
- custom text, yes
- shows just regular type face for each font (i.e. not bold or others)
- requires 1 click to see the font
- doesn’t show system fonts(?), only a big selection of downloadables
- Opcion
- horrible user interface
- doesn’t show bold type face (and others) in the list
- FontViewer
- makes fonts look ugly (doesn’t antialias or whatnot)
- no list, no bold face
- kfontview
- doesn’t find system fonts itself (select font with “Open…” on a font file)
- doesn’t do lists of fonts
Best Answer
I've installed Fontvuer under 18.04 and it's working pretty good.
It installs as a snap application.