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fontpreview is a commandline tool that lets you quickly search for fonts that are installed on your machine and preview them. The fuzzy search feature is provided by fzf and the preview is generated with imagemagick and then displayed using nsxiv. This tool is highly customizable, almost all of the variables in this tool can be changed using the commandline flags or you can configure them using environment variables.

Dependencies

• xdotool
• fzf
• imagemagick
• nsxiv

Installation

Install using make

# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/fontpreview

# Change your current directory to fontpreview
$ cd fontpreview

# Install it
$ sudo make install

Install it locally

# Download the fontpreview source code, save as fontpreview
# and make it executeable
$ curl -L https://git.io/raw_fontpreview > fontpreview && chmod +x fontpreview

# Then move fontpreview to somewhere in your $PATH
# Here is an example
$ mv fontpreview ~/scripts/

Usage

$ fontpreview --help
usage: fontpreview [-h] [--size "px"] [--position "+x+y"] [--search-prompt SEARCH_PROMPT]
                   [--font-size "FONT_SIZE"] [--bg-color "BG_COLOR"] [--fg-color "FG_COLOR"]
                   [--preview-text "PREVIEW_TEXT"] [-i font.otf] [-o preview.png] [--version]

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Very customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash

optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -i, --input           filename of the input font (.otf, .ttf, .woff are supported)
   -o, --output          filename of the output preview image (input.png if not set)
   --size                size of the font preview window
   --position            the position where the font preview window should be displayed
   --search-prompt       input prompt of fuzzy searcher
   --font-size           font size
   --bg-color            background color of the font preview window
   --fg-color            foreground color of the font preview window
   --preview-text        preview text that should be displayed in the font preview window
   --version             show the version of fontpreview you are using

If you want to generate a preview image for a single font file (.otf, .ttf, and .woff are supported), use the -i and -o option to indicate the filename of the input font and the output preview image.

$ fontpreview -i font.otf -o preview.png

This can be used with überzug to implement font preview within terminal file managers such as vifm.

A detailed setup instructions can be found here

Configure

You can configure fontpreview through environment variables.

This can be in your .bashrc, .zshrc, etc

# Input prompt of fuzzy searcher
export FONTPREVIEW_SEARCH_PROMPT="❯ "

# Size of the font preview window
export FONTPREVIEW_SIZE=532x365

# The position where the font preview window should be displayed
export FONTPREVIEW_POSITION="+0+0"

# Font size
export FONTPREVIEW_FONT_SIZE=38

# Background color of the font preview window
export FONTPREVIEW_BG_COLOR="#ffffff"

# Foreground color of the font preview window
export FONTPREVIEW_FG_COLOR="#000000"

# Preview text that should be displayed in the font preview window
export FONTPREVIEW_PREVIEW_TEXT="ABCDEFGHIJKLM\nNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\nabcdefghijklm\nnopqrstuvwxyz\n1234567890\n!@$\%(){}[]"