03 · Fonts in, type sheets out
Specimen
Produce a type specimen sheet from fonts installed on this machine.
When to reach for it
Use to show a typeface in a brand document or to compare faces on a page. Fonts must already be installed locally; this cannot use a font file that has not been installed.
What lands on disk
The specimen sheet as a PDF and a PNG.
PDFPNG
Without the window
The same tool from a terminal or an agent. Identical output either way, because the app and the command line run the same code.
gridform specimen --title "Acme" --family Helvetica --out ~/DesktopThe other tools