Emacs: show-font version 0.4.0

2025-08-26

This package lets you preview a font inside of Emacs. It does so in three ways:

• Prompt for a font on the system and display it in a buffer.
• List all known fonts in a buffer, with a short preview for each.
• Provide a major mode to preview a font whose file is among the installed ones.

Sources:

• Package name (GNU ELPA): show-font
• Official manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/show-font
• Change log: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/show-font-changelog
• Git repository: https://github.com/protesilaos/show-font
• Sample pictures: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-09-10-emacs-show-font-0-1-0/
• Backronym: Should Highlight Only With the Family Of the Named Typeface.

Below are the release notes.

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Version 0.4.0 on 2025-08-26

This version expands the capabilities of the font preview mechanism to handle emoji and icon fonts (i.e. those with codepoints in the Unicode Private Use Area).

Both the show-font-select-preview and show-font-tabulated commands now handle these types of font.

Previews for emoji or icon fonts are done using the string of characters set to the variable show-font-emoji-sample or show-font-icon-sample. These symbols are user options.