fzfont - An interactive font selector for terminal lovers.

fzfont is a single script that lets you browse, preview, and select fonts installed on your system using fzf, fontconfig, and chafa.

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Features

• Show both font family entries and full face entries in one searchable list.
• Render live preview text for the currently selected font in terminal.
• Display metadata for the resolved face.
• Copy selection to clipboard.

Requirements

• bash
• fc-list
• fc-match
• fc-query
• fzf
• magick (ImageMagick)
• chafa

Optional clipboard tools:

• wl-copy
• xclip
• pbcopy

Install

git clone https://github.com/Huirey/fzfont.git
cd fzfont
chmod +x fzfont

Usage

./fzfont
./fzfont --help

Examples:

# custom preview text
./fzfont --text "你好, Hello, 123"

# larger preview text size
./fzfont --pointsize 64

# keep selection only (no clipboard copy)
./fzfont --no-copy

# put image below metadata
./fzfont --preview-image-pos bottom

Environment Variables

• FONT_SAMPLE_TEXT
• POINTSIZE
• FAMILY_TAG
• PREVIEW_IMAGE_POS
• COPY_ON_SELECT
• PREVIEW_COLOR_MODE
• PREVIEW_BOLD
• PREVIEW_FILL

License

MIT