fontlook

FontLook

FontLook is a local Go-based web application that helps you discover, preview, and manage fonts on your system. This tool allows you to browse your local font files, generate previews, and convert fonts to both True Type Fonts (TTF) and Web Open Font Format 2.0 (WOFF2) formats. It's especially useful for managing large font collections and finding the ideal font for your projects.

Features

• Scan and discover fonts in specified directories
• Support for TTF, OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 formats
• Real-time font preview generation
• Customizable preview text and font size
• Format conversion using Google WOFF2 Tools (TTF/OTF to WOFF2)
• Cached conversion results for better performance
• Dark/light theme toggle
• Fast, concurrent font processing with progress feedback
• Real-time font search and filtering
• Customizable grid layout (1-4 columns)
• Alphabetical sorting (A-Z, Z-A)
• Batch download all fonts (or filtered selection) as a ZIP file
• Virtual scrolling for handling large font collections (5000+ fonts)
• Paginated loading with infinite scroll

Prerequisites

Before installing the application, ensure you have:

• Go 1.23.4 or later (https://go.dev/doc/install).
• WOFF2 Tools (woff2_compress and woff2_decompress) (https://github.com/google/woff2)

Installation

Option 1 Download the pre-built Binary files from Releases

# You will need to make the binary executable on macOS and Linux:

# Linux
chmod +x fontlook-linux-amd64
./fontlook-linux-amd64

# macOS
chmod +x fontlook-darwin-amd64
./fontlook-darwin-amd64

# Windows just open run the executable
fontlook-windows-amd64.exe

Option 2 Clone and Build

• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/bradsec/fontlook.git
cd fontlook

• Install dependencies:

go mod tidy

• Build the application:

go build -o fontlook cmd/server/main.go

Configuration

The application can be configured using environment variables:

Running on a Different Port

# Linux/macOS
PORT=3000 ./fontlook

# Windows (Command Prompt)
set PORT=3000 && fontlook.exe

# Windows (PowerShell)
$env:PORT="3000"; .\fontlook.exe

Example with Multiple Options

# Run on port 3000 with 8 concurrent workers
PORT=3000 MAX_CONCURRENT=8 ./fontlook

Notes

• The application will automatically open in your default web browser
• You can manually navigate to http://localhost:8080 (or your configured port)
• The application creates static and logs directories where the executable is launched
• Font conversions are cached for better performance
• Directory scans are cached for 30 seconds to improve responsiveness

Acknowledgments

• Google WOFF2 Tools for font conversion