Software Map

GnuMICR is a Postscript Type 1 Magnetic Ink
Character Recognition (MICR) font. It can be used
for the numbers and symbols at the bottom of bank
drafts, to encode routing and account number
information. A converted True Type version is also
included.

fonts-tweak-tool provides users with a GUI for customizing desktop fonts per language, and generic alias families.

Fontlinge searches for font files, sorts them into folders by name and look and with human readable names, stores gathered font information in a database, generates previews and posters, finds and removes duplicates, and reunites PostScript font families. Also, Fontlinge has a Web interface to browse through your fonts. It shows detail previews and font info, provides font download as a tarball, and has the possibility to sort fonts.

acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches.

FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text. It prints its input using large characters made up of ordinary screen characters. FIGlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of email and UseNet messages. It is also reminiscent of the output of some banner programs, although it is oriented normally, not sideways.

fntsample is a program for making font samples
that show Unicode coverage of the font. The
samples are similar in appearance to Unicode
charts. Samples can be saved as PDF or PostScript
files.

Free Japanese Gothic/Mincho Font

FONTpage is a utility for viewing, managing, and generating images of fonts. It can install and delete per-user fonts as well as (when run as root) system-wide fonts. It displays fonts, has a full alpha-numeric popup window, and allows you to change the font size and color, background color, font face, bold, and italics. It also has the ability to input the text to be displayed, which you can choose to save as a PNG file. It is handy to view fonts and styles quickly, or to make "logo" graphics. And naturally, it is a simple way to try out fonts without dipping into the command line. The source code as well as Slackware packages are available.

The Liquid Font Family is a collection of small bitmap fonts focusing on readability and Unicode support. The fonts were designed with small, graphics-capable LCD displays in mind, and to be nice and narrow. They are proportional fonts, not mono-spaced like many similar projects.

TTX is a tool to convert OpenType and TrueType
fonts to and from XML. FontTools is a Python
library for manipulating fonts. It supports
TrueType, OpenType, AFM, (to an extent) Type 1,
and some Mac-specific formats.