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,
gwaterfall
View all characters of a font in all sizes
This program facilitates comparison of various fonts and font
rendering parameters.
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.
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.
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.
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).