# FontManager/font-manager

Repository: https://github.com/FontManager/font-manager
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/font-manager
Homepage: http://fontmanager.github.io/
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: gtk, linux, vala, meson, fonts, font-manager, font-management, font-preview, google-fonts, typography
Last push: 2025-09-24T15:51:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 53/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4114, "days_push": 343, "days_rel": 544, "gap_med": 6, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1079, forks 63 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:30.285535+00:00)

## What it is
Font Manager is a simple GTK-based desktop application for managing fonts on Linux, letting users preview, install, remove, activate, and organize font families without command-line tools. It is designed primarily for GNOME but works with other GTK desktop environments, and explicitly is not a professional-grade font solution.

## Use cases
- preview and compare font files before installing
- install and remove user fonts without editing config files
- activate and deactivate installed font families
- browse and install Google Fonts
- organize fonts into user collections
- view a character map for a font
- manage desktop font settings on GNOME

## When to choose
- you are an average Linux/GTK desktop user who wants easy font management
- you want a GUI alternative to manually copying font files and running fc-cache
- you want to preview and compare fonts before installing them
- you want to install fonts from the Google Fonts catalog

## When to avoid
- you need professional-grade font management with advanced typographic features
- you are not on a GTK-based Linux desktop environment
- you need cross-platform font management on Windows or macOS
- you rely on Flatpak, where some features are unavailable

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, file-system
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools, graphics
- platform: -
- tags: fonts, font-management, font-preview, typography, google-fonts, vala, gnome, linux, gtk, desktop

## Member repositories
- FontManager/font-manager (main) score 53

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:30.285535+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:53:01.558048+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FontManager/font-manager (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:30.285535+00:00, sha 694ecc54ecd8)
  - homepage: http://fontmanager.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:53:51.929551+00:00, sha c97dc6df845b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.