NAME

luafindfont - retrieve font informations of all installed system and TeX fonts.

SYNOPSIS

luafindfont [options] <fontname>

DESCRIPTION

This command lists informations about installed otf|ttf|ttc fonts, installed by the system and by the TeX distribution

OPTIONS

-h,--help

obvious ... :-)

-o,--otfinfo

Use the program otfinfo for the font with the given number. The number can be followed by an optional argument for otfinfo, e.g. -o 2f, list all features for font no 2. Without an additional character, otfinfo is called with -i

-i,--info

List the given fontstyles (regular, bold, italic, bolditalic) for the font with the given number

-v,--verbose

Give more informations, by now only -v works

-m,--max_string

The maximum of the stringlength of the full path of fonts

-n,--nosymbolicnames

The fontlist contains only fontfile and fontpath

<fontname>

Can be a substring, e.g. times, or a combination of two substrings which act like a boolean and, e.g. "times & bold" (must be in quotes). All strings are not case sensitive. Upper and lowercase can be mixed.

EXAMPLES

$ luafindfont libertinssans

Lists all fonts which have names or part of like libertinussans

We are using Lua 5.3
Check for file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-var/luatex-cache/generic/names/luaotfload-names


 1.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans                          /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.otf


 2.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...onts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.otf


 3.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans                        /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.otf


 4.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...ts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.otf


 5. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans                       /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.otf


 6. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...s/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.otf

The --otfinfo:

$ luafindfont -o 3 libertinussans

This produces the following output:

We are using Lua 5.3
Check for file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-var/luatex-cache/generic/names/luaotfload-names


 1.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans                          /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.otf


 2.    LibertinusSans-Bold.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...onts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Bold.otf


 3.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans                        /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.otf


 4.  LibertinusSans-Italic.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...ts/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Italic.otf


 5. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans                       /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.otf


 6. LibertinusSans-Regular.otf libertinussans  /usr/local/texlive/texmf-d...s/opentype/public/libertinus-fonts/LibertinusSans-Regular.otf
Run otfinfo:3
Family:              Libertinus Sans
Subfamily:           Italic
Full name:           Libertinus Sans Italic
PostScript name:     LibertinusSans-Italic
Version:             Version 7.020;RELEASE
Unique ID:           1.000;QUE ;LibertinusSans-Italic
Designer:            Philipp H. Poll, Khaled Hosny
Manufacturer:        Caleb Maclennan
Vendor URL:          https://github.com/alerque/libertinus
Copyright:           Copyright © 2012-2020 The Libertinus Project Authors.
License URL:         https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
License Description: This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
Vendor ID:           QUE

The --nosymbilcnames:

$ luafindfont -n

This produces the following output:

bash-3.2$ luafindfont -n minion
We are using Lua 5.3
Check for file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-var/luatex-cache/generic/names/luaotfload-names


 Nr.                 Fontname                                   Path


   1.      MinionMath-Bold.otf  /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionMath/


   2.   MinionMath-Regular.otf  /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionMath/


   3.       MinionPro-Bold.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


   4.     MinionPro-BoldCn.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


   5.   MinionPro-BoldCnIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


   6.     MinionPro-BoldIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


   7.       MinionPro-Capt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


   8.       MinionPro-Disp.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


   9.         MinionPro-It.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


  10.     MinionPro-Medium.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


  11.   MinionPro-MediumIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


  12.    MinionPro-Regular.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


  13.   MinionPro-Semibold.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


  14. MinionPro-SemiboldIt.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/


  15.       MinionPro-Subh.otf   /Users/voss/Library/Fonts/MinionPro/

See also

See luafindfont-doc.pdf for more details

BUGS

No known bugs.

AUTHOR

Herbert Voß (hvoss@tug.org)

LICENSE

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3.