Embellish is a graphical Nerd Fonts manager for Linux.
Nerd Fonts extends popular typefaces with a large collection of symbols and icons that are useful in editors, shells, status bars and other developer-focused interfaces. Working with those patched fonts manually can involve locating the correct family, downloading archives and keeping track of what is already installed. Embellish provides a focused desktop interface for handling that workflow while remaining useful to people who also maintain their own custom font definitions.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Lists available Nerd Font families and clearly distinguishes installed fonts from those not present on the system.
- Downloads and installs selected fonts from the built-in Nerd Fonts catalogue.
- Removes fonts that are no longer required.
- Searches font names and descriptions to narrow a large collection quickly.
- Previews a typeface using editable sample source code rendered with the selected font.
- Displays the licensing information associated with individual fonts.
- Adds custom fonts alongside the built-in Nerd Fonts collection.
- Imports and exports custom-font lists, with support for supplying font data as JSON.
- Provides a dedicated icon browser for exploring the glyphs supplied by Nerd Fonts.
- Lets users search and filter icons and copy a selected glyph for use elsewhere.
- Uses a GTK4 interface enhanced with libadwaita and designed to adapt to narrower displays.
- Supports pointer, keyboard and touch input.
- Renders font titles with their own typefaces for a quick visual indication while browsing.
- Keeps edits to the sample code when moving between font previews.
Website: github.com/getnf/embellish
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Developer: Ronnie Nissan
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Embellish is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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