FontFor

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

This is port from my early python script called which_fonts_support, 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, no GUI or browser needed (in plan)

Install

cargo install fontfor

Usage

Basic

$ 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

Preview

Add -p flag to enable browser preview:

LICENSE

GPLv3 or later.

See COPYING.