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https://github.com/tomcur/font-info
🗚 Print font information and metrics
https://github.com/tomcur/font-info
font-metrics fonts opentype truetype
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🗚 Print font information and metrics
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tomcur/font-info
- Owner: tomcur
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2024-07-23T18:41:41.000Z (4 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-07-26T13:08:20.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-07T07:59:36.438Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: font-metrics, fonts, opentype, truetype
- Language: Rust
- Homepage:
- Size: 59.6 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE-APACHE
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README
# font-info 🗚
**Print font information and metrics**
[](https://crates.io/crates/font-info)
[](https://github.com/tomcur/font-info/actions)
This is a cross-platform program that can parse font files and prints out
information such as metrics and font style. It can find fonts installed or your
system or you can point it to a specific font file.
Supported font formats:
- OpenType
- TrueType
Supported platforms:
- Unix-like (Fontconfig)
- Windows (DirectWrite; **untested**)
- MacOS (Core Text; **untested**)
## Usage
See `$ font-info --help` for CLI usage documentation. For example, to find
all fonts in the "Liberation Sans" font family on your system and print out
their metrics, run:
```bash
$ font-info --family-name "Liberation Sans"
-[ FONT 1 ]-------------------------------------------------
Source: /path/to/share/fonts/truetype/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf
Font index in source: 0
Weight: 700
Style: normal
Stretch: 1.00
Glyph count: 2620
Units per em: 2048
Average advance: 1248
Ascent: 1854
Descent: 434
Line height: 2288
Leading: 67
Capital height: 1409
"x" height: 1082
Stroke thickness: 215
Underline offset: -2
Strikeout offset: 530
-[ FONT 2 ]-------------------------------------------------
... etc
```
By default font-info produces human-readable output. To output as
machine-readable JSON, run:
```bash
$ font-info --family-name "Liberation Sans" --format json
```
You can print fonts' features and supported writing systems using the
`--print-features` and `--print-writing-systems` flags.
## Installation
Install using Cargo:
```bash
$ cargo install font-info
$ font-info --family-name "Liberation Sans"
```
Run using Nix flakes:
```bash
# Run ls
$ nix run github:tomcur/font-info -- --family-name "Liberation Sans"
```
## Dependencies
### fontconfig
On Unix-like systems this program depends on fontconfig (and pkg-config for
finding fontconfig during build). For example, for Debian or Ubuntu:
```bash
$ sudo apt install pkg-config libfontconfig-dev
```