https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview

Demo app that displays fonts with a free/libre/open-source text rendering stack: FreeType, HarfBuzz and Raqm
https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview

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Demo app that displays fonts with a free/libre/open-source text rendering stack: FreeType, HarfBuzz and Raqm

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/googlei18n/fontview
• Owner: googlefonts
• License: other
• Created: 2016-08-03T12:13:16.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-03-01T21:50:00.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-01T10:12:14.171Z (27 days ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 6.89 MB
• Stars: 324
• Watchers: 52
• Forks: 37
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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• awesome-typography - FontView - Demo app that displays fonts with a free/libre/open-source text rendering stack: FreeType, HarfBuzz and Raqm. (C++)

README

        
# FontView [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/googlefonts/fontview.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/googlefonts/fontview)

“FontView” is a little demo app that shows the contents of a font

file. It opens `*.ttf`, `*.otf`, `*.ttc`, `*.otc`, `*.pfa`, and `*.pfb`

files. To render text, FontView uses the open-source libraries

[FreeType](https://www.freetype.org/),

[HarfBuzz](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/), and

[Raqm](http://host-oman.github.io/libraqm/). FontView is not an

official Google product; use it at your own risk.

![Screenshot](doc/fontview-v0.1.2.png)

You’re very welcome to [contribute changes](CONTRIBUTING.md), for

example if you’d like porting the tool to other platforms than

macOS. (Because the program only calls cross-platform libraries,

porting should actually be quite easy). Likewise, please don’t

hesitate to add new features; simply send a GitHub pull request when

your change is ready.

## Building on macOS

```sh

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/googlefonts/fontview.git;

# if you forget the recursive arg, run

# git submodule update --init --recursive

$ cd fontview

$ python2.7 build.py && ./build/FontView.app/Contents/MacOS/fontview

```

## Building on Linux

You need to first install wxWidgets as well as latest versions of FreeType,

HarfBuzz and FriBiDi.

```sh

$ git clone https://github.com/googlefonts/fontview.git

$ cd fontview

$ git submodule init

$ git submodule update src/third_party/raqm/libraqm

$ python build.py && ./build/fontview

```