FontFor

Find fonts which can show a specified character and preview them in browser.

This is port from my early python script called which_fonts_support, but with some improvements:

🛡️ Write in Rust, without unsafe. Safety
🚀️ Mmap to load font file. Fast
🚀️ Only parse font table we need, not all bytes of font file. Faster
🖥 Support preview in terminal and browser. Friendly

Install or Update

cargo install -f fontfor

Or download binary from release page.

Usage

Basic

$ fontfor א
Font(s) support the character "א"(U+05D0, 1488, 0xD7 0x90):
Arial                       with 4 styles
Arial Hebrew                with 3 styles
Arial Hebrew Desk Interface with 3 styles
Arial Hebrew Scholar        with 3 styles
Arial Unicode MS            with 1 style
Corsiva Hebrew              with 2 styles
Courier New                 with 4 styles
DejaVu Sans                 with 8 styles
FreeMono                    with 4 styles
FreeSans                    with 4 styles
FreeSerif                   with 4 styles
HanaMinA                    with 1 style
LastResort                  with 1 style
Lucida Grande               with 2 styles
Microsoft Sans Serif        with 1 style
New Peninim MT              with 4 styles
Raanana                     with 2 styles
TW-Kai                      with 1 style
TW-Sung                     with 1 style
Tahoma                      with 2 styles
Times New Roman             with 4 styles

Character Input Format

You can use the following formats for the character:

Character: א
Unicode scalar value
- U+XXXXXX: U+5d0, U+05d0, U+0005d0
- Direct input
- Dec format: 1488
- Oct format: 0o2720
- Binary format: 0b010111010000
UTF8 bytes: 0xd790