From 2028f6cb09eec71087fb336e861ba8ba82ee4ebc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:34:44 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add List All Fonts On Your Machine as a Unix TIL

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 README.md                              |  3 ++-
 unix/list-all-fonts-on-your-machine.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 unix/list-all-fonts-on-your-machine.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pairing with smart people at Hashrocket.
 
 For a steady stream of TILs, [sign up for my newsletter](https://crafty-builder-6996.ck.page/e169c61186).
 
-_1576 TILs and counting..._
+_1577 TILs and counting..._
 
 See some of the other learning resources I work on:
 - [Ruby Operator Lookup](https://www.visualmode.dev/ruby-operators)
@@ -1545,6 +1545,7 @@ See some of the other learning resources I work on:
 - [Killing A Frozen SSH Session](unix/killing-a-frozen-ssh-session.md)
 - [Last Argument Of The Last Command](unix/last-argument-of-the-last-command.md)
 - [Less With Style](unix/less-with-style.md)
+- [List All Fonts On Your Machine](unix/list-all-fonts-on-your-machine.md)
 - [List All The Enabled ZSH Options](unix/list-all-the-enabled-zsh-options.md)
 - [List All Users](unix/list-all-users.md)
 - [List Files In A Single Column](unix/list-files-in-a-single-column.md)
diff --git a/unix/list-all-fonts-on-your-machine.md b/unix/list-all-fonts-on-your-machine.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# List All Fonts On Your Machine
+
+In trying to figure out what _FiraCode_ font I have installed on my machine
+and what it is called, I came across [this StackOverflow
+answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/52789662/535590) which shares the
+following one-liner:
+
+```bash
+$ fc-list | awk '{$1=""}1' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq
+```
+
+This uses `fc-list` to get the names of all the fonts available on your
+machine. This seems to work on both Linux and Mac. Through a series of `awk`,
+`cut`, and `sort | uniq`, this command produces a clean, easily-browsed list
+of fonts.
+
+I like to take this a step further by piping it all to `fzf` where I can then
+narrow down the output to just lines that match _FiraCode_.
+
+```bash
+$ fc-list | awk '{$1=""}1' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq | fzf
+```
+
+See also [`system_profiler SPFontsDataType`](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/35852/list-of-activated-fonts-with-shell-command-in-os-x/243746#243746).