https://github.com/mvz/phew-font-viewer

Focused Font Viewer for GNOME 3
https://github.com/mvz/phew-font-viewer

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Focused Font Viewer for GNOME 3

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mvz/phew-font-viewer
• Owner: mvz
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2012-05-06T07:56:20.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-02T16:18:09.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T07:23:12.470Z (28 days ago)
• Topics: font-viewer, gnome, hacktoberfest, ruby
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage:
• Size: 655 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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# Phew

Phew will be a font viewer.

## Goals

The primary use case that prompted the development of this program was

needing to figure out which of the installed fonts provided characters

for writing Japanese.

As a user, in order to determine which fonts to keep, I want to know

which fonts provide characters for a particular script, and compare them

using a sample text.

Many fonts provide characters for the latin script in addition to their

primary focus on some other scripts. For example, many CJK fonts also

provide latin letters, often of a lesser quality than fonts designed

specifically for latin. Therefore, I want to be able to exclude such

fonts when comparing latin fonts.

As a user, in order to determine which font to use for a particular

document, I want to know which fonts cover the characters I want to use,

and compare them. I should be able to manipulate the initial selection

by adding and removing fonts.

Tentatively, there would be a filtering system, and we would have two

lists of fonts that satisfy the filters, namely those that have been

selected (the default state), and those that have been rejected.

For an online tool that does what I want, see [Wakamai Fondue](https://wakamaifondue.com/).

## License

Copyright (c) 2012, 2015-2024 Matijs van Zuijlen

Phew is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms

of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,

either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This application is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT

ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS

FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with

this application. If not, see .