---
name: "mate-font-viewer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mate-control-center"
version: "1.28.2-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mate-font-viewer"
---

# mate-font-viewer(1)

preview fonts

## NAME

**mate-font-viewer** - preview fonts

## SYNOPSIS

**mate-font-viewer** \[*OPTIONS...*\] \<filename\>

## DESCRIPTION

This executable is part of the package 'mate-control-center': The MATE Control Center.

Use **mate-font-viewer** , the MATE Font Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to display the name, style, type, size, ver- sion, and copyright of the font.

To browse the fonts installed on your system, open a file manager window and enter the following URI in the location bar:

    *fonts://*

Double-click on an icon to display a preview of the font.

## AUTHORS

This manual page was writtenby Mike Gabriel \<mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

## OPTIONS

This program accepts the standard MATE and GTK options.

## SEE ALSO

Latest version of the MATE Desktop User Guide for your platform.

[**mate-control-center**(1)](/mate-control-center/1.md), [**caja**(1)](/caja/1.md), [**gtk-options**(7)](/gtk-options/7.md)