Chapter 1. Introduction

Fontmatrix is an end-user font manager originally designed for Linux, with builds also available for Windows and macOS.

Its highlights are:

  • works with local and remote font storages;

  • features activation and deactivation of fonts based on tags;

  • allows finding suitable fonts by constructing simple or complex queries;

  • allows refining a fonts selection by comparing either glyphs in detail or text lines;

  • supports searching in PANOSE metadata and allows non-destructively editing it;

  • has advanced OpenType support, variable fonts and colour fonts (emoji, layered and bitmap glyphs) included;

  • ships with sample texts in many languages and scripts to assist testing fonts with wide Unicode coverage;

  • features easy template-based creation of font books (PDF).