β¨ Very customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash β¨
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 sxiv
. 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.
xdotool
fzf
imagemagick
sxiv
# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/fontpreview
# Change your current directory to fontpreview
$ cd fontpreview
# Install it
$ sudo make install
# 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/
For arch based distros, an AUR package is available at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fontpreview/
$ 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"] [--version]
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Very customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--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 kunst you are using
You can configure fontpreview
through environment variables.
This can be in your .bashrc
, .zshrc
, etc
# Input prompt of fuzzy searcher
export FONTPREVIEW_SEARCH_PROMPT="β― "
# 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!@$\%(){}[]"