Font Downloader

About

One day I was bored of my terminal font and wanted to switch, unfortunately going through the entire process of searching Google Fonts for a font, then downloading, then copying and pasting it into my .fonts folder to only then test a font was a pain. So I decided to create this app!

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Screenshots

How to compile

If you use GNOME Builder, simply cloning the project is enough, otherwise you need to install libhandy as a dependency.

Dependencies in Fedora:

sudo dnf install cmake meson ninja 
sudo dnf install libhandy1-dev

Then build using meson:

git clone https://github.com/GustavoPeredo/font-downloader.git
cd font-downloader
mkdir build
meson build .
cd build
ninja
ninja install

To run it from terminal:

fontdownloader

Translations!

They are here and need your help! Don't be afraid to open an issue or contribute to the translations here: https://poeditor.com/join/project?hash=hfnXv8Iw4o

To-Dos

• ~~Learn how po works~~
• ~~Do some translations~~
• ~~See if it is ready for flatpak~~
• ~~Add GtkFileChooser dialog for user to choose where to download fonts to~~
• ~~Create settings panel (default installation directory and dark mode)~~
• ~~Create about window~~
• ~~Visual feedback for when fonts are done installing/downloading~~
• ~~Show a little check for when a font is already installed~~
• ~~Add new filters (depending on alphabet, will probably require a redesign of the app)~~
• ~~Optimize code~~
• ~~Update to libhandy 1.0 and update glade files acordingly~~
• ~~Find a way to remove the "back_button" without check-resize~~
• ~~Fix fonts names~~
• ~~Translate new strings~~
• ~~Migrate to gitlab~~

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