CHKFONT(6)

💖 CHKFONT 💖

okay bestie, so this is chkfont from the Games Manual, section 6 — and she's lowkey a legend. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

chkfont — checks figlet 2.0 and up font files for format errors 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

chkfont [ fontfile ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk: this program checks figlet 2.0 and up font files for format errors. that's the whole job, and she ate 💅

but wait, there's more — it also looks for signs of common problems and gives warnings. so it's not just a hater pointing out your typos, she's genuinely looking out for you 🫶

and the most important part, no cap: chkfont does not modify font files. read-only queen. she's just looking, never touching. your fonts are safe ✨

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

so say you wanna use chkfont on the "big" font — iconic choice btw — you'd literally just do:

example% chkfont /usr/share/figlet/big.flf

and boom, she runs the vibe check on it 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so here's the one thing, and it's giving tragic:

Doesn't work on compressed font files. 😭

that's it. that's the whole bug. zip it, gzip it, whatever — she's not doing it. periodt.

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

chkfont was written by Glenn Chappell <ggc@uiuc.edu> — shoutout to the icon 👑

this manual page was written by Jonathon Abbott for the Debian Project 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• figlet(6)
• showfigfonts(6)
• figlist(6)

the whole friend group fr fr 🌸

v2.2.5 · 31 May 2012 · from the Games Manual section 6

okay that's the whole page bestie, ty for coming to my ted talk, go check those fonts, ily, bye 💅✨🦋