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Fontik can be used to tweak and configure some properties of fonts. These settings are usually set system-wide while installing the fonts. The power of fontconfig is thus limited when it comes to the user. The user can definitely override or enhance these settings, but for that, he has to manually edit the ~/.fonts.conf each and every time. This GUI tool performs some these tasks.

Currently Fontik can be used to:

• Set hinting method for for individual fonts.
• Add alias (an alternate name for the font which can be picked up by applications) for a font.
• Tweak matrix size of font if needed. (Playing around with this is not recommended usually,though).
• Blacklist fonts if the user doesn't like them or they take precedence over other fonts of similar family.

Gnome apps  honour these settings while, somehow, KDE apps don't. Maybe, KDE has its own font management  methods.

Fontik is available from Gitorious.