Fonty Python and the Holy Grail of a Font Manager | Linux Today

Fonty Python and the Holy Grail of a Font Manager

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Bruce Byfield
Apr 24, 2007

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“For designers, a font manager that can activate and deactivate
fonts on-the-fly is the Holy Grail of the GNU/Linux desktop.
Without such a tool, designers either need to devote an inordinate
amount of system memory to their font collections, or else install
and uninstall fonts individually, manually keeping track of the
fonts needed for each project. The trouble is, no still-viable font
manager has reached a 1.0 release, or even an advanced beta. So
far, the closest candidate is Fonty Python, currently at version
0.2.

“Fonty Python groups fonts into collections that it calls pogs,
which can be installed or uninstalled for the current user account.
As soon as the fonts are loaded, they are available for use by
other programs…”

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