Phew

Phew will be a font viewer.

The primary use case that prompted the development of this program was needing to figure out which of the installed fonts provided characters for writing Japanese.

As a user, in order to determine which fonts to keep, I want to know which fonts provide characters for a particular script, and compare them using a sample text.

Many fonts provide characters for the latin script in addition to their primary focus on some other scripts. For example, many CJK fonts also provide latin letters, often of a lesser quality than fonts designed specifically for latin. Therefore, I want to be able to exclude such fonts when comparing latin fonts.

As a user, in order to determine which font to use for a particular document, I want to know which fonts cover the characters I want to use, and compare them. I should be able to manipulate the initial selection by adding and removing fonts.

Tentatively, there would be a filtering system, and we would have two lists of fonts that satisfy the filters, namely those that have been selected (the default state), and those that have been rejected.

For an online tool that does what I want, see Wakamai Fondue.

Copyright (c) 2012, 2015-2024 Matijs van Zuijlen

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