User:ScotXW/Font-Manager

Screenshot of Font-Manager 0.5.7
Original author(s)	Jerry Casiano
Stable release	0.5.7 / May 1, 2014 (2014-05-01)
Written in	Python Vala
Operating system	Linux, the BSDs, OS X, Windows
Type	Font management software
License	GNU General Public License
Website	code.google.com/p/font-manager/

Font-Manager is a font management software programmed in Vala. It can manage fonts installed system-wide or for individual user accounts. It relies on FreeType to render font samples, and on GTK+ for its user GUI widgets. Linux.com hailed the creation of Fontmatrix with an article concluding with: "Finally, the long wait for a GNU/Linux font manager is ending."

Font-Manager lets the user 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. Fontmatrix is included in Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora Linux.

Older versions were programmed in Python employing PyGObject, newer ones have been rewritten using Vala.

Font-Manager is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.

See also

• Fontmatrix programmed in C++ using Qt

References

• Bruce Byfield (December 5, 2007), Fontmatrix: Font management for the desktop finally arrives, linux.com
• Sachin Dhall (September 5, 2008), 25 Font Management Tools Reviewed, Smashing Magazine
• Alexandre Prokoudine (July 17, 2009), Fontmatrix 0.6.0, libregraphicsworld.org

External links

• Home page
• font-manager] in Debian

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