## Welcome to Fontmatrix help system

Fontmatrix is an end-user font manager initially designed for Linux, but now also available for Windows and Mac OS X.

Its highlights are:

- works with local and remote font storages;
- features activation and deactivation of fonts based on tags;
- allows finding suitable fonts by constructing simple or complex queries;
- allows refining a fonts selection by comparing either glyphs in details or text lines;
- supports searching in PANOSE metadata and allows non-destructively editing it;
- has advanced OpenType support;
- ships with sample texts in gazillion of languages and scripts to assist testing fonts with wide Unicode blocks coverage;
- features easy templates based creation of font books (PDF).

If you have already used an earlier version of Fontmatrix, you might be interested to find out, what's new in this version.

If this is the first time you ever run a font manager and you are wondering what it's good for, please read this chapter.

If you are already familiar with font managers per se and know why you want using them, you might like to know what's so special about Fontmatrix.