So, yeah, basically the title …

I am in search for a good and simple and modern font viewing application. But there seems to be nothing that matches my criteria.

  • The software needs to be independent from any desktop environment, because I don’;t use one and i am not willing to install what feels like hundreds of specific dependencies

  • The software also should not be a font manager, I can manage my fonts absolutely fine by my own.

  • The software also does not need any features to view “installed and uninstalled” fonts (a term I come across – whatever that means), just give it a file name as parameter and view that font in the GUI.

  • The software should not be dead (i.e. last upstream change over a decade ago, using a dead graphics toolkit, not working on Wayland, etc.).

But either I forgot how to search the web or there seems to be no such application. All I wound was either decades old, dead software, or overly complicated and complex font managers or modules for the two common desktop environments.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance :)

  • FishFace@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    those stupid modern things

    As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.

    If the requirement is “few dependencies that I don’t already have” then we need to know something about what dependencies you already have and what constitutes too many. As far as I can see, gnome-font-viewer’s one GNOME-specific dependency is libadwaita.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 hours ago

      As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.

      I was talking specifically about web fonts and web font websites which help me not the slightest with my use case.

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        5 hours ago

        Oh, ok.

        So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in? How much space does that take up? What are the limits?