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We've compiled a list of 3 free and paid alternatives to fontconfig. The primary competitors include Font Finder, Font Manager. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between fontconfig and Fontmatrix. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


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Simple font management for GTK+ desktop environments

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Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access. Fontconfig can:

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fontconfig Overview

Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.

Fontconfig can:
1) discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
2) perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing.
3) identify the set of fonts required to completely cover a set of languages.
4) have GUI configuration tools built as it uses an XML-based configuration file (though with autodiscovery, we believe this need is minimized).
5) efficiently and quickly find the fonts you need among the set of fonts you have installed, even if you have installed thousands of fonts, while minimzing memory usage.
6) be used in concert with the X Render Extension and FreeType to implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.

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font-manager font-library typeface configuration-management configuration

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