With ImageMagick, how can you see all available fonts?

Question

ImageMagick can draw text into a picture in a given font, how can I see all available fonts for my system?

Answer 1

depending on your imagemagick version:

convert -list type       # for IM older than v6.3.5-7 convert -list font       # for newer versions 

also the output format changed...

-- update For OsX (Answer from Charles Merriam) if the command above does not produce any results:

For a full tutorial with description see http://gothick.org.uk/2008/03/14/using-os-x-fonts-in-imagemagick/ for the rest &tldr:

# use fondu to convert fonts and update locatedb sudo port install fondu  cd /usr/local/share/fonts/ fondu /Library/Fonts/*.dfont /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate  # generate imagemagick type.xml  cd ~ mkdir ~/.magick wget http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/imagick_type_gen perl imagick_type_gen > ~/.magick/type.xml 

Answer 2

To list only the font names, do convert -list font | grep Font