5 of the Best Free Linux Font Tools

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 10, 2011

[ Thanks to Steve
Emms
for this link. ]

“Another factor that has contributed to Linux becoming more font
friendly is improvements made in font management and editing
software. Font management software lets users browse and preview
fonts, to organise them by groups, to activate and deactivate
fonts, make comparisons between fonts, find fonts suitable for a
specific purpose, as well as generating font samples and font
books. Many distributions have hundreds of fonts pre-installed.
This type of software makes it simple to manage and evaluate these
fonts. In this article, we have highlighted the best font
management software available for Linux, as well as identifying our
favorite font editor.

“To provide an insight into the software that is available, we
have compiled a list of 5 of our favorite font software. Hopefully,
there will be something of interest here for users who want to
mange the fonts on their computer. We give our highest
recommendation to Fontmatrix and FontForge.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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