The composition of the Debian Testing packet base, on the basis of which will be a release of Debian 12 “Bookworm”, Adopted Package FNT With the implementation of the font manager, solving the task of installing additional fonts and maintain already existing fonts in the current state. In addition to Linux, the program can also be used in FreeBSD (recently Added Port) and MacOS. The code is written on Shell and spreads under license MIT.
FNT utility is positioned as an analog APT for fonts and supports a similar set of commands for installation, updates and search. Additionally, a team is proposed for a visual font preview in the console using ASCII graphics. For better viewing of the proposed fonts in the browser, Web service is prepared. The utility allows you to install more recent fonts present in the Debian SID repository, as well as external fonts from the Google Web Fonts . A total of about 2,000 fonts are offered for installation (480 from Debian SID and 1420 from Google Web Fonts).
