ALBATROSS(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ ALBATROSS(1) — General Commands Manual 🦋

💖 NAME

albatross 🎀 is a tool for finding fonts that contain a given (Unicode) glyph. 🔥

🌸 SYNOPSIS

albatross [options] glyphs...

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so albatross is a command line tool for finding fonts that contain a given (Unicode) glyph. ✨ It leans on Fontconfig, a library for configuring and customizing font access, so it's giving serious font-hunting energy. 🧚

albatross takes a list of glyphs as input, and there are three formats it's totally fine with: 🫶

🍓 Format #1

The glyph itself, e.g., ß (Eszett). 💜 Internally, the tool converts it to the corresponding Unicode code point, no cap. 🌈

🍓 Format #2

The glyph as a Unicode code point in hexadecimal notation, e.g., 0xDF. ⭐ The 0x prefix is mandatory, bestie, so don't skip it. 😭 The tool treats the value as case insensitive, which means 0xDF is equal to 0xdf (or any case combination thereof). 💅

🍓 Format #3

The glyph as a Unicode code point using the multiset union notation, e.g., U+DF. 🦋 The U+ prefix is mandatory too. ⚠️ Be mindful that this notation expects an uppercase U, so u+DF is not it. 💀

🎀 OPTIONS

  • --show-styles — show available font styles 💖
  • --detailed — show a detailed font list 🔥
  • --ansi-level [n|a16|a256|tc] — set the default ANSI level 🌈
  • --border-style [0|1|2|3|4|5|6] — set the border style 🦋
  • --or — look for each glyph separately 👑
  • --version — show the version and exit ✨
  • --help — show a help message and exit 🫶

🐛 BUGS

Issue tracker at https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/albatross/-/issues. 🙈 If something's acting up, go drop a report there, iykyk. 💜

Sending this with love from v0.5.1, dated 13 February 2024, ALBATROSS(1) 🦋💖 bye bestie, go find those glyphs! 🧚✨

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