xfontsel

The xfontsel application provides a simple way to display the fonts known to your X server, examine samples of each, and retrieve the X Logical Font Description ("XLFD") full name for a font.

If -pattern is not specified, all fonts with XLFD 14-part names will be selectable. To work with only a subset of the fonts, specify -pattern followed by a partially or fully qualified font name; e.g., "-pattern medium" will select that subset of fonts which contain the string "medium" somewhere in their font name. Be careful about escaping wildcard characters in your shell.

If -print is specified on the command line the selected font specifier will be written to standard output when the quit button is activated. Regardless of whether or not -print was specified, the font specifier may be made the PRIMARY (text) selection by activating the select button.

The -sample option specifies the sample text to be used to display the selected font if the font is linearly indexed, overriding the default.

The -sample16 option specifies the sample text to be used to display the selected font if the font is matrix encoded, overriding the default.

The -sampleUCS option specifies the sample text encoded in the UTF-8 form to be used to display the selected font if the font has a CHARSET_REGISTRY of ISO10646, overriding the default.

The -scaled option enables the ability to select scaled fonts at arbitrary pixel or point sizes.