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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.
If the requirement is "few dependencies that I don't already have" then we need to know something about what dependencies you already have and what constitutes too many. As far as I can see, gnome-font-viewer's one GNOME-specific dependency is
libadwaita.I was talking specifically about web fonts and web font websites which help me not the slightest with my use case.
Oh, ok.
So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in? How much space does that take up? What are the limits?