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pango.FontFace — an object representing a group of fonts varying only in size.

Synopsis

class pango.FontFace(gobject.GObject):
    def describe()
    def get_face_name()
    def list_sizes()

Description

A pango.FontFace object represents a group of fonts with the same family, weight, slant, stretch and width but varying sizes. A list of font faces can be retrieved from a pango.FontFamily object using the pango.FontFamily.list_faces() method.

Ancestry

+-- gobject.GObject
  +-- pango.FontFace

Methods

pango.FontFace.describe

    def describe()

Returns :

a pango.FontDescription object containing the description of the face.

The describe() method returns a pango.FontDescription object containing the family, style, variant, weight and stretch of the pango.FontFace. The size attribute field will be unset.

pango.FontFace.get_face_name

    def get_face_name()

Returns :

the face name for the face.

The get_face_name() method returns a string representing this font face. This name is unique among all faces in the family and is suitable for displaying to users.

pango.FontFace.list_sizes

    def list_sizes()

Returns :

a tuple containing a list of face sizes in pango units or None

Note

This method is available in PyGTK 2.4 and above.

The list_sizes() method returns a tuple containing the available sizes for a bitmap font. If the font face is a scalable font this method returns None.

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