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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Font Renderers

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.It solves the problem of selecting and positioning glyphs from a font given a Unicode string.

fontvuer is a cross platform font viewer. You can preview fonts that are installed on your system.

GNOME Fonts shows you the fonts installed on your computer for your use as thumbnails. This is free and open source software.

Opcion Font Viewer is a Java based font viewer that allows users to view (un)installed TrueType fonts one or many at a time.

fntsample is a tool that can be used to make font samples that show coverage of the font and are similar in appearance to Unicode Charts.

KFontview is an application to view and install fonts. It’s also a standalone program to preview and install fonts from the net.

Nerd Fonts is a project that patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons).

Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android.

Roboto is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface family developed by Google. It’s been dubbed by their signature family of fonts.

Source Code Pro is a set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments.

The Liberation Fonts is a font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New.

Hermit is a monospace font designed to be clear, pragmatic and very readable. Its creation has been focused on programming.

Hack is designed to be a workhorse typeface for source code. It has deep roots in the open source typeface community.