fontpreview-ueberzug is a POSIX shell script to preview all fonts installed on system in fzf with ueberzug. It is inspired by fontpreview project while most of the code are completely rewritten here.
Simply run the script, or put the script in your $PATH, or with makefile as follows:
After cloning/downloading the repo, install with make (change the destination with PREFIX)
make install
For Arch based users, fontpreview-ueberzug-git is available in AUR, thanks to @pabloariasal!
Usage: fontpreview-ueberzug [-h] [-s FONT_SIZE] [-b BG_COLOR] [-f FG_COLOR] [-t PREVIEW_TEXT] [-p WIDTHxHEIGHT]
Options:
-h show help message
-s font size
-b background color
-f foreground color
-t preview text
-p preview size (e. g. 640x480)
To merge the preview image into the terminal, set background color the same as that of the terminal emulator, this is not by default.
To show ligatures, you can use the following or any other text which contains ligature combination:
FONTPREVIEW_PREVIEW_TEXT="ABCDEFGHIJKLM\nNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\nabcdefghijklm\nnopqrstuvwxyz\n1234567890\n<!-- != == ->\n-| #[ |> <$> ~@" fontpreview-ueberzug
This script makes use of some of the environment variables as follows, these are the same in fontpreview so you can use the same settings with fontpreview-ueberzug:
FONTPREVIEW_FONT_SIZE: Font sizeFONTPREVIEW_BG_COLOR: Background colorFONTPREVIEW_FG_COLOR: Foreground colorFONTPREVIEW_PREVIEW_TEXT: Preview text to displayFONTPREVIEW_SIZE: Preview size
Difference from fontpreview
- Does not need two windows (terminal and sxiv) to display. Use
ueberzugto display the preview image in terminal instead. - Preview updates as you scroll without having to press enter also going back to the first font in list.