Finding Glyph in Fonts

Sometimes it is necessary to find fonts that contain a specific glyph. The tool albatross can be used for that task.

Finding a font by providing the glyph Snowman Emoji:

albatross ☃

Finding a font by providing the code of the glyph in multiset union notation:

albatross U+2603

A detailed description of all options can be found in the CTAN package documentation or albatross(1).

Possible Unicode characters and their code point can be searched on symbl.cc.

Info

On Debian or Ubuntu the tool is part of the package texlive-font-utils. The command is not available. Instead the following command can be used:

java -jar /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/albatross/albatross.jar 0x2603