fontfor: Find fonts which can show a specified character and preview them in ter...

FontFor

Find fonts which can show a specified character and preview them in browser.

This is port from my early python script called which_fonts_support , but with some improvements:

Write in Rust, safe and faster
Use Fontconfig library instead of depends on fc-list command installed
Support preview in shell (powered by FreeType ), no browser needed

Install or Update

cargo install -f fontfor

Usage

Basic

$ fontfor א
Font(s) support the character "א"(U+05D0, 1488, 0xD7 0x90):
Arial                       with 4 styles
Arial Hebrew                with 3 styles
Arial Hebrew Desk Interface with 3 styles
Arial Hebrew Scholar        with 3 styles
Arial Unicode MS            with 1 style
Corsiva Hebrew              with 2 styles
Courier New                 with 4 styles
DejaVu Sans                 with 8 styles
FreeMono                    with 4 styles
FreeSans                    with 4 styles
FreeSerif                   with 4 styles
HanaMinA                    with 1 style
LastResort                  with 1 style
Lucida Grande               with 2 styles
Microsoft Sans Serif        with 1 style
New Peninim MT              with 4 styles
Raanana                     with 2 styles
TW-Kai                      with 1 style
TW-Sung                     with 1 style
Tahoma                      with 2 styles
Times New Roman             with 4 styles

Character Input Format

You can use the following formats for the character:

Character: א
Unicode scalar value
- U+XXXXXX : U+5d0 , U+05d0 , U+0005d0
- Direct input
```
1488
0o2720
0b010111010000
```
UTF8 bytes: 0xd790