# GNOME Font Selector Manual

Copyright © 2000 by Alexander Kirillov

# Introduction

`GNOME Font selector` is a simple utility for choosing a screen (i.e. X Window System) font. It is included in `gnome-utils` package, which is a part of GNOME environment. This manual describes version 1.2 of `GNOME Font selector`.

`GNOME Font selector` is usually launched when you are changing an application's font in a Settings or Preferences dialog. It can also be launched from the main menu by selecting Font Selector item in the Utilities submenu of the Main Menu, or from the command line by running command gfontsel.

It is important to know that in X Window System, each font has a number of attributes, such as family (Helvetica, Times, Courier…), size, weight, slant, etc., and two fonts are considered different even if they only differ in one of the properties, such as size or weight: `Helvetica 10 point`, `Helvetica 12 point`, and `Helvetica 10 point bold` are considered as different fonts. Each font has a unique name (officially known as X Logical Font Description, or XLFD), which includes the values of all font's attributes, and by necessity is very long. Detailed description of X Window System fonts, their attributes and names can be found in the section called Font attributes in X Window System and XLFD.

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