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[[Image:Xfontsel.png|thumb|450px|The <code>xfontsel</code> program allows the user to view the glyphs of a font.]]

The names of the fonts are arbitrary strings at the level of the X Window core protocol. The [[X logical font description]] conventions<ref name="logi-font">{{cite web|url= http://www.xfree86.org/current/xlfd.pdf |title= X Logical Font Description Conventions |accessdate= 2005-12-30 |author= Jim Flowers |coauthorsauthor2= Stephen Gildea |year= 1994 |format= PDF |work= [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] |publisher= [[X Consortium]] }}</ref> specify how fonts should be named according to their attributes. These conventions also specify the values of optional properties that can be attached to fonts.

The <code>xlsfonts</code> program prints the list of fonts stored in the server. The <code>xfontsel</code> program shows the glyphs of fonts, and allow the user to select the name of a font for pasting it in another window.