Xfonts-utils provides a set of utility programs shipped with the X Window System that are needed for font management.

The programs in this package include: - bdftopcf, which converts BDF fonts to PCF fonts; - bdftruncate and ucs2any, tools to generate fonts with various encodings from ISO 10646-encoded fonts - mkfontdir, a program to generate fonts.dir files; - mkfontscale, a program to generate fonts.scale files; - fonttosfnt, a program to wrap bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType) wrapper.