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BigText The 'BigText' command prints big text using X11 fonts. It is similar to many other banner(1) commands, except that it can draw with all of the X11 fonts.

Fntsample fntsample is a program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font. The samples are similar in appearance to Unicode charts. Samples can be saved as PDF or PostScript files.

FontForge 'FontForge' is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another. This package was formerly known as 'pfaedit'.

FontTools FontTools/TTX is a library to manipulate font files from Python. It supports reading and writing of TrueType/OpenType fonts, reading and writing of AFM files, reading (and partially writing) of PS Type 1 fonts. The package also contains a tool called "TTX" which converts TrueType/OpenType fonts to and from an XML-based format.

Fontlinge 'Fontlinge' searches for font files, sorts them into folders by name and look and with human readable names, stores gathered font information in a database, can generate previews and posters, can find and remove duplicates, and can reunite PostScript font families. It also has a web interface for browsing through your fonts. It shows detail previews and font infos, provides font download as a tarball, and can sort fonts.

Fontutils Includes the programs bpltobzr, bzrto, charspace, fontconvert, gsrenderfont, imageto, limn, and xbfe. These create fonts for use with Ghostscript and TeX (starting with a scanned type image and converting the bitmaps to outlines), convert between font formats, etc. The package also includes the lib libbzr.a, libgf.a, libpbm.a, libtfm.a, and libwidgets.a.

FreeType FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, and text image generation tools. FreeType 2 is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing (e.g. colored text rendering, "hollowing", etc..). However, it simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use and uniform interface to access the content of font files.

GLTT 'GLTT' is a library that allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGL application. It supports bitmapped and anti-aliased font drawing as well as vectorized and polygonized drawing.

GNU Font Editor GNU Font Editor (GFE) is a graphical font editor based on the GIMP Toolkit. It is easy to use and will eventually support many font types. Currently it supports only BDF (bitmap distribution format) font files, that can be converted to many other formats easily. This is not a finished package, as it is still in the alpha stage. This project was a GNU package. It has since been decommissioned and is no longer developed.

Gdkxft 'Gdkxft' transparently adds anti-aliased font support to gtk+-1.2. Once it is installed, you can run nearly any existing gtk+ binary and see anti-aliased fonts in the gtk widgets without needing to recompile gtk+ or your applications. The latest version includes some international text support.

Gfontview gfontview is a Font Viewer for outline fonts (PostScript Type 1 and TrueType). It lets you view uninstalled fonts. It will display all fonts present in the chosen directory in a list, with a preview of the font in the main window. It allows printing samples and font catalogs. 'gfontview' also allows you to display a particular character or string of a font in an own window, thus allowing a comparison between several fonts with a particular string sample. This character or string can be antialiased (smoothed).

OGLFT The OpenGL/FreeType2 Text Rendering Library (OGLFT) supplies an interface between a font and an OpenGL or Mesa application.It uses the FreeType library to read font faces from their files and renders text strings as OpenGL primitives. Characters can be rendered in a variety of ways, including as raster images, as tessellated polygons and as texture maps. Glyphs can be drawn individually or as a string, and can be rendered using UNICODE characters via the QString class (with Qt support). You can also combine several fonts together in one OGLFT Face to increase the coverage of UNICODE points or for other special effects. Strings can be rotated through any angle, and drawn right, centered or left justified. Additionally each character in a string can be rotated through a given angle.

Pfaedit 'pfaedit' is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another. This project has been renamed 'FontForge.' Please see http://directory.fsf.org/FontForge.html for the most recent information on this package.

TTFQuery TTFQuery builds on the FontTools package to allow the Python programmer to accomplish a number of tasks:

• query the system to find installed fonts
• retrieve metadata about any TTF font file (even those not yet installed)
• o abstract family type
  

o proper font name
o glyph outlines

• build simple metadata registries for run-time font matching

VSOFont VSOFont is a small library used to draw very simple and fast user-definable 2D vector fonts in OpenGL applications. It was written after the author found GLUT's fonts to be too expensive to render.

Xfontselector xfontselector is a program that enables easier selection than xfontsel gives you of the most suitable font in X window. You can pick different fonts and compare how they look line-by-line.