Fontmatrix

Fontmatrix

Developer(s)	Pierre Marchand
Initial release	2007 (2007)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux, OS X, Windows
Platform	x86
Available in	English
Type	Font management software
License	GNU GPL
Website	fontmatrix.be

Fontmatrix is a font management software, also termed a font manager, for Linux desktop environments. It can manage fonts installed system-wide or for individual user accounts. It relies on FreeType to render font samples, and on Qt for its user interface. Bruce Byfield hailed the creation of Fontmatrix with an article concluding with: "Finally, the long wait for a GNU/Linux font manager is ending."

Fontmatrix lets users label a font with multiple tags (similar to Gmail labels), which may be activated or deactivated as sets. It also allows the user to toggle features of OpenType fonts for testing purposes. As of November 2008, the PANOSE classification present in fonts may also be used to select them by similarity. Fontmatrix is included in the Linux distributions Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

References

Bruce Byfield (December 5, 2007), Fontmatrix: Font management for the desktop finally arrives, linux.com
Sachin Dhall (September 5, 2008), 25 Font Management Tools Reviewed, Smashing Magazine
Alexandre Prokoudine (July 17, 2009), Fontmatrix 0.6.0, libregraphicsworld.org

External links

Official website

Free and open-source typography

Software	FontForge Fontmatrix FreeType Ghostscript Metafont MetaPost METATYPE1 Pango TeX

Licenses	Apache License BSD License Creative Commons licenses GNU General Public License + GPL font exception GNU Lesser General Public License LaTeX Project Public License MIT License SIL Open Font License Ubuntu Font Licence

Operating system, corporate & professional	Bitstream Charter Bitstream Vera, DejaVu Cantarell Charis SIL Computer Modern, Concrete Roman Courier Prime Doulos SIL Droid, Noto, Open Sans Fira Sans Ghostscript fonts GNU FreeFont, GNU Unifont Hershey fonts Liberation, Croscore Lohit Nimbus Mono, Sans, Roman OCR-A, OCR-B Overpass PT Fonts Roboto Source Code, Source Han Sans, Source Sans, Source Serif STIX fonts Tiresias Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling Utopia WenQuanYi

Other typefaces	Allerta Asana-Math Cardo Chandas Comic Neue Cormorant EB Garamond Gentium Inconsolata IM Fell Jomolhari Junicode Kochi Linux Libertine M+ News Cycle Open Baskerville OpenDyslexic Railway Sans Squarish Sans CT Theano Didot XITS

Groups and people	Donald Knuth Font Awesome Greek Font Society League of Movable Type Open Font Library Google Fonts SIL International

Open-source Unicode typefaces List of open source typefaces List of free software Unicode typefaces

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