Some small work with fonts.
- Font indexing and querying via display name
- Specifying custom font directories
- CLI for listing fonts
Via pip:
pip install fontra
For some advanced tools:
pip install fontra[tools]which currently enables you to:
- Extract a .ttc file to .ttf files
fontra --help
--version
list
List available fonts.
--tree/[--table] | -t/[-T]
Whether to display a tree or a table.
--sort/[--no-sort] | -s/[-S]
Whether to output with sorted font names.
--with-localized-names/[--without-localized-names] | -l/[-L]
Whether to show localized font names.
path
Show the font directories.
show
Show the font information.
[--localized]/--no-localized NAME... # will fix name in next version
Whether to lookup the localized index.
unlocalized NAME # will fix name in next version
Convert a name into an unlocalized name.
>>> import fontra
>>> fontra.all_fonts()
['Noto Sans Lisu', 'Noto Serif Tamil SemiCondensed', 'Noto Serif Georgian', 'Noto Sans Armenian', ...]
>>> fontra.get_font_styles("Arial")
['Regular', 'Italic', 'Bold', 'Bold Italic', 'Black']
>>> fontra.get_font("Arial", "Italic")
FontRef(path=PosixPath('/usr/share/fonts/TTF/ariali.ttf'), bank=0)
>>> fontra.has_font_family("Helvetica")
False
>>> fontra.has_font_style("Comic Sans MS", "Light")
False
>>> fontra.get_unlocalized_name("更紗ゴシック UI J")
'Sarasa UI J'
>>> fontra.get_localized_names("LXGW WenKai TC")
['霞鶩文楷 TC', '霞鹜文楷 TC']
>>> fontra.get_font("更纱黑体 SC", "SemiBold Italic")
FontRef(path=PosixPath('/usr/share/fonts/sarasa-gothic/Sarasa-SemiBoldItalic.ttc'), bank=1)
>>> fontra.FONTDIR_CUSTOM.append("./data/fonts")
>>> fontra.update_custom_fontfiles_index()
>>> fontra.update_fontrefs_index()
>>> fontra.all_fonts()
[...]
This project is under MIT License.