Fontview

fontview is a small CLI for inspecting icon, dingbat, emoji, and display fonts. It scans font files, finds defined Unicode glyphs, and opens a local web view for typing samples or browsing a glyph map.

Install

With eget

eget dannyben/fontview

From GitHub Releases

Download the archive for your operating system and CPU from the repository's Releases page, extract it, and put the fontview binary somewhere on your PATH.

From Source

go install github.com/dannyben/fontview@latest

Usage

Start a local server for all fonts under the current directory:

fontview

Inspect specific files or directories:

fontview SomeFont.ttf icons/ emoji/

Write a standalone HTML report instead of starting the server:

fontview --html
fontview --html -o fonts.html icons/

By default, the server listens on 0.0.0.0:3000. Override it with:

fontview --addr 127.0.0.1:9000

Interface

• Type view: full-window text area for trying the selected font.
• Map view: browsable glyph map grouped by broad Unicode categories.
• Font, category, size, weight, bold, italic, and search controls live in the fixed header.
• Clicking a glyph copies it to the clipboard.

Supported Inputs

fontview discovers these extensions recursively:

• .ttf
• .otf
• .woff
• .woff2

Hidden directories such as .git are skipped.