FC-QUERY(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

fc-query(1) has entered the chat, and it’s all about one thing: fc-query — query font files. That’s the vibe, bestie. 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fc-query [ -Vh ]

        [  [ -b ]  [ --ignore-blanks ]  ]  [  [ -i index ]  [ --index index ]
       ]  [  [ -f format ]  [ --format format ]  ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]
       font-file...

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So fc-query queries your font-file(s) using the normal fontconfig rules, and it prints out the font pattern for each face it finds. 💅

If --index is given, only one face of each file is queried. Otherwise, all faces are queried. No cap, that’s the whole flow. ✨

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

• -b, --ignore-blanks — ignore blanks to compute languages. 🫶
• -i index, --index index — only query face indexed index of each file. 🔍
• -f format, --format format — format output according to the format specifier format. ✨
• -V, --version — show version of the program and exit. 👋
• -h, --help — show summary of options. 📜
• font-file — query font-file for font faces. 💖

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🫶 RETURN CODES 🫶

fc-query returns error code 0 for successful parsing, or 1 if any errors occurred or if at least one font face could not be opened. Periodt. 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fc-scan(1)
• FcFreeTypeQuery(3)
• FcPatternFormat(3)
• fc-cat(1)
• fc-cache(1)
• fc-list(1)
• fc-match(1)
• fc-pattern(1)

The fontconfig user’s guide: <URL:https://fontconfig.pages.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html>

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>. Iconic. 👑

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💖 Cute sign-off tea: the footer says Aug 13, 2008 and FC-QUERY(1). That’s the date + source/version vibe, bestie. Slay. 🎀