FC-LIST(1)

💅 fc-list — like, the FC-LIST(1) girlie's guide 💅

okay so real talk, bestie — we're deep in the fc-list(1) manual page and honestly? it's kind of iconic. it's the fontconfig one that tells you what fonts you actually have on your system. buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

fc-list — lists available fonts 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fc-list [ -vVh ] [ --verbose ] [ [ -f format ] [ --format format ] ]
        [ [ -q ] [ --quiet ] ] [ --version ] [ --help ]

 [ pattern [ element... ] ]

like yes, that's a lot of brackets, no cap — it's giving "options within options" energy 🌀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

fc-list lists the fonts and styles available on the system — specifically for apps that use fontconfig. so like, it's the vibe check for your font collection 👑

if you pass any elements, only those get printed. otherwise it prints family and style — unless you asked for verbose output, in which case it does its own thing. periodt.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax — long options start with two dashes (-), iykyk. here's the summary, bestie 🌸

• -v — prints verbose output of the whole font pattern for each match, or prints just the elements if any were provided. main character energy 🔥
• -f — formats output according to the format specifier format. you control the whole look ✨
• -q — suppresses all normal output. and get this: it returns 1 as the error code if no fonts matched 😭 so it's lowkey a lil test
• -V — shows the version of the program and dips out. slay
• -h — shows a summary of the options 🫶
• pattern — if you set this argument, only fonts matching pattern get displayed. filter it, bestie 💅
• element — if set, the element property gets displayed for matching fonts 👑

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

• fc-list lists all font faces. every single one. the whole lineup 💀
• fc-list :lang=hi lists font faces that cover Hindi 🌈
• fc-list : family style file spacing lists the filename and spacing value for each font face. and omg note this: : is an empty pattern that matches all fonts. that colon is doing so much work 🧚

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

fc-match(1) FcFontList(3) FcPatternFormat(3) fc-cat(1) fc-cache(1) fc-pattern(1) fc-query(1) fc-scan(1)

the fontconfig user's guide 🦋 <URL:https://fontconfig.pages.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html>

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> and Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>. legends, honestly 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 it's fc-list(1), dated Aug 13, 2008 — yeah, the girlies have been referencing this since forever, and it still ate 🍓✨