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hailed the creation of Fontmatrix with an article concluding with: "Finally, the long wait for a GNU/Linux font manager is ending."
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labels), which may be activated or deactivated as sets. It also allows the user to toggle features of
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classification present in fonts may also be used to select them by similarity.
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Fontmatrix lets users label a font with multiple tags (similar to
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Fontmatrix: Font management for the desktop finally arrives
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fonts for testing purposes. As of November 2008, the
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Font management software
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