---
name: "fontimage"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "fontforge"
version: "20251009-5"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fontimage"
---

# fontimage(1)

produce a font thumbnail image

## NAME

**fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image**

## SYNOPSIS

**fontimage** \[**--help**\] \[**--width** *num*\] \[**--height** *num*\] \[**--pixelsize** *num*\] \[**--text** *string*\] \[**--o** *outputfile*\] \[**--usage**\] \[**--version**\] *fontfile*

## DESCRIPTION

The program **fontimage** loads a font, which may be in any format [*fontforge*(1)](/fontforge/1.md) can read, and then produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font.

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  Provide a description with a list of the available options.

- **--width num**

  Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as wide as necessary to display the text.

- **--height num**

  Specifies the height of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as high as necessary to display the text.

- **--pixelsize num**

  Specifies the pixelsize used to display the text. This argument may be specified multiple times and each refers to any --text lines that follow it.

- **--text string**

  Specifies a line of text to be displayed. The string must be in UTF-8. This argument may be specified multiple times to provide several lines of text. If no --text arguments are supplied *fontimage* will examine the font, looking for various scripts it knows about, and will try to display something appropriate for each.

- **-o outfile**

  Specifies the output filename for the image. The type of image will be determined by the file's extension. Currently only ".bmp" and ".png" are recognized. If omitted *fontimage* will choose an output name based on the font's fontname field.

- **--usage**

  Display the usage description.

- **--version**

  Display the current version

## SEE ALSO

[**fontforge**(1)](/fontforge/1.md)

The HTML version of the *fontforge* manual at:\
 `http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/`

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).