Simple font preview and compare application for GNOME

gnome-specimen

Simple font preview and compare application for GNOME

A simple tool to view and compare fonts installed on your system. It has currently following features,
View all characters of a font in all sizes

gwaterfall

View all characters of a font in all sizes

This program facilitates comparison of various fonts and font rendering parameters.
schumacher-clean at 12pt, 6px height, all characters with glyphs

xfonts-base

standard fonts for X

xfonts-base provides a standard set of low-resolution bitmapped fonts. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients.
Font downloader/manager

fnt

Font downloader/manager

Search, preview, and download more than 1800 fonts as user. It can download fonts from Debian sid and Google Web fonts repositories.
New Fonty-Python ver. 0.5.1

fontypython

Find, view and manage font files of all kinds

You can quickly view and filter arbitrary TTF, TTC, OTF or Type1 font files and then gather them together into 'pogs' which can be installed or removed as needed. In this way you control which fonts are installed on a per-project basis. It is written in Python and WxWidgets.
convert X11 font from PCF to BDF format

pcf2bdf

convert X11 font from PCF to BDF format

Pcf2bdf is a font de-compiler. It converts an X11 font from Portable Compiled Format (PCF) to Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF).