FONTIMAGE(1) General Commands Manual FONTIMAGE(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

**fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image**

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**fontimage** \[**--help**] \[**--width** *num*] \[**--height** *num*] \[**--pixelsize** *num*] \[**--text** *string*] \[**--o** *outputfile*] \[**--usage**] \[**--version**] *fontfile*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The program **fontimage** loads a font, which may be in any format [*fontforge*(1)](/man/os/fontforge/fontforge.1) can read, and then produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[**--help**](#help)

Provide a description with a list of the available options.

[**--width num**](#width)

Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as wide as necessary to display the text.

[**--height num**](#height)

Specifies the height of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as high as necessary to display the text.

[**--pixelsize num**](#pixelsize)

Specifies the pixelsize used to display the text. This argument may be specified multiple times and each refers to any --text lines that follow it.

[**--text string**](#text)

Specifies a line of text to be displayed. The string must be in UTF-8. This argument may be specified multiple times to provide several lines of text. If no --text arguments are supplied *fontimage* will examine the font, looking for various scripts it knows about, and will try to display something appropriate for each.

[**-o outfile**](#o)

Specifies the output filename for the image. The type of image will be determined by the file's extension. Currently only ".bmp" and ".png" are recognized. If omitted *fontimage* will choose an output name based on the font's fontname field.

[**--usage**](#usage)

Display the usage description.

[**--version**](#version)

Display the current version

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**fontforge**(1)](/man/os/fontforge/fontforge.1)

The HTML version of the *fontforge* manual at:  
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

26 October 2006

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Document: fontimage(1) from fontforge 20251009-r5 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge