fc-list

Return a list of installed fonts in your system

$ fc-list

Return a list of installed fonts with given name

$ fc-list | grep '[DejaVu Serif]'

Return the number of installed fonts in your system

$ fc-list | wc -l

fc-list [ -vVh ] [ --verbose ] [ -f format | --format format ] [ -q | --quiet ] [ --version ] [ --help ] [ pattern [ element ... ] ]

fc-list lists fonts and styles available on the system for applications using fontconfig. If any elements are specified, only those are printed. Otherwise family and style are printed, unless verbose output is requested.

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

-v --verbose

Print verbose output of the whole font pattern for each match, or elements if any is provided.

-f --format format

Format output according to the format specifier format.

-q --quiet

Suppress all normal output. returns 1 as the error code if no fonts matched.

-V --version

Show version of the program and exit.

-h --help

Show summary of options.

pattern

If this argument is set, only fonts matching pattern are displayed.

element

If set, the element property is displayed for matching fonts.

fc-list

Lists all font faces.

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. ``:'' is an empty pattern that matches all fonts.

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, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.

This manual page was written by Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> and Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>.