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Best Free and Open Source Font Viewers

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 13, 2023

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Linux users may not have a plethora of fonts, but there are many lovely and usable fonts. Different Linux fonts are supplied with different Linux distros.

A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor.

Most computer fonts are in either bitmap or outline data formats. Bitmap fonts consist of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image of each glyph in each face and size. Outline or vector fonts use Bézier curves, drawing instructions and mathematical formulae to describe each glyph, which make the character outlines scalable to any size.

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