fontpreviewer

fontpreviewer

fontpreviewer is a nice little tool that generates PNG thumbnails of fonts, and also generates a HTML file with all generated thumbnails.

It receives a list of font files as parameters, and writes a PNG image for each font at the same directory. It requires write-permission to the directory with the fonts.

It supports TTF, OTF (OpenType), and any fonts supported by pygame.freetype.

Requirements

• Python 3
• pygame
  • pygame requires SDL and FreeType.
• fonttools
  • Optional, but recommended.

TODO

• Rewrite the argument parsing routine to use the modern argparse module instead of getopt.
• Add argument to write the PNG files to a specific directory, avoiding the need for write-permission on the fonts directory.
• Support multi-line --text, consider migrating from pygame to pygame-ce.