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Quick font selection

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 ★ 12:19 ★ Categories Gnome, Programming

A few days ago I wrote a simple Python script to quickly select a (fontconfig) font name using a standard GTK+ font selection dialog. This is useful for browsing your font library (I have many fonts installed) or when changing configuration files that need font names.

Select font

The font name is copied to the clipboard and printed to stdout by default. Command line switches are provided to disable copying or printing.

Save the file into a directory that is in your $PATH and chmod +x it to use it. Of course you should have PyGTK installed, but this is the default on most distributions.

Download: gtk-select-font (Python script)

Update: I’ve also provided a simple color picker.