List Installed Fonts via the Command Line
Today I learned there's a command line utility called fc-list. It lists the
fonts installed on your system.
Running fc-list will print out a lot of
information - font families, the different styles available, where they're
installed.
I find it's much more useful to run fc-list : family, which will print out all
the font family names installed:
$ fc-list : family
Fira Code,Fira Code SemiBold
0xProto Nerd Font
Iosevka Term,Iosevka Term Extrabold
Menlo
.SF NS Mono
...
This is a lot easier to read and grep through!
My main use case for this is if I want to use a font in my
alacritty config, but don't know the font's exact name. For
example, if I want to use Apple's new(-ish) SF Mono font, the font family is not
SF Mono as you might expect - its clearly .SF NS Mono 🤷.