The ever industrious Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) just uploaded another nice package to MELPA. It’s a simple little app that displays a font in an Emacs buffer but for those who are on an eternal quest for the perfect font it’s perfect.
The app displays a (configurable) bit of text—think “The quick brown fox…”—and an (again configurable) set of characters underneath. Currently, the app works only with locally installed fonts but Prot is planning to upgrade it to be able to display and install any font.
Prot describes it as a work in progress but it’s already useful and will probably become more so as Prot refines it. It’s not a big thing but it’s another nice example of how Emacs is—or can be made to be—a complete editing environment.