---
name: "gfontsel"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-utils"
version: "1.4.1.2-4"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gfontsel"
---

# gfontsel(1)

the GNOME Font selector

## NAME

gfontsel - the GNOME Font selector

## SYNOPSIS

**gfontsel**

or select **GNOME Font selector** from the **Utilities** submenu of the Main Menu.

## DESCRIPTION

**GNOME Font selector** is a simple utility for choosing a screen (i.e. X Window System) font. It is usually launched automatically when you are changing an application's font in a Settings or Preferences dialog.

For full documentation see the **GNOME Font selector** online help.

## AUTHOR

**GNOME Font selector** was written by Andrew Veliath (\<andrewtv@usa.net\>) with the help of many other GNOME developers.

This manual page was written by Jochen Voss \<voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**xfontsel**(1x)](/xfontsel/1x.md), [**xlsfonts**(1x)](/xlsfonts/1x.md), [**xfd**(1x)](/xfd/1x.md), and the **X Logical Font Description**(**XLFD**) from the *xspecs* package.