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 $PATH, or with provided makefile.
For Arch based users, fontpreview-ueberzug-git is available in AUR, thanks to @pabloariasal!
Usage: fontpreview-ueberzug [-h] [-a TEXT_ALIGN] [-s FONT_SIZE] [-b BG_COLOR] [-f FG_COLOR] [-t PREVIEW_TEXT]
Options:
-a alignment of preview text, you can use center, top/bottom/left/right or
north/south/west/east, or combinations like topleft, default is center
-s preview font size, default is 72, note the actual size depends on the preview area
-b, -f background and foreground color, default is #ffffff and #000000
-t preview text, you can add '\n' to split into lines
The arguments are passed directly to 'convert' command, you can check the ImageMagick documentation to find acceptable formats for them.
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To merge the preview image into the terminal, set background color the same as that of the terminal emulator, this is not by default.
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To show ligatures, you can use the following or any other text which contains ligature combination:
FONTPREVIEW_PREVIEW_TEXT="ABCDEFGHIJKLM\nNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\nabcdefghijklm\nnopqrstuvwxyz\n1234567890\n<!-- != == ->\n-| #[ |> <$> ~@" 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_SIZEFONTPREVIEW_BG_COLORFONTPREVIEW_FG_COLORFONTPREVIEW_PREVIEW_TEXTFONTPREVIEW_TEXT_ALIGN
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.