Function

Pango-1.0Pangofont_description_from_string

  • Creates a new font description from a string representation.

    The string must have the form

    [FAMILY-LIST] [STYLE-OPTIONS] [SIZE] [VARIATIONS] [FEATURES]
    

    where FAMILY-LIST is a comma-separated list of families optionally terminated by a comma, STYLE_OPTIONS is a whitespace-separated list of words where each word describes one of style, variant, weight, stretch, or gravity, and SIZE is a decimal number (size in points) or optionally followed by the unit modifier "px" for absolute size.

    The following words are understood as styles: "Normal", "Roman", "Oblique", "Italic".

    The following words are understood as variants: "Small-Caps", "All-Small-Caps", "Petite-Caps", "All-Petite-Caps", "Unicase", "Title-Caps".

    The following words are understood as weights: "Thin", "Ultra-Light", "Extra-Light", "Light", "Semi-Light", "Demi-Light", "Book", "Regular", "Medium", "Semi-Bold", "Demi-Bold", "Bold", "Ultra-Bold", "Extra-Bold", "Heavy", "Black", "Ultra-Black", "Extra-Black".

    The following words are understood as stretch values: "Ultra-Condensed", "Extra-Condensed", "Condensed", "Semi-Condensed", "Semi-Expanded", "Expanded", "Extra-Expanded", "Ultra-Expanded".

    The following words are understood as gravity values: "Not-Rotated", "South", "Upside-Down", "North", "Rotated-Left", "East", "Rotated-Right", "West".

    The following words are understood as color values: "With-Color", "Without-Color".

    VARIATIONS is a comma-separated list of font variations of the form @‍axis1=value,axis2=value,...

    FEATURES is a comma-separated list of font features of the form #‍feature1=value,feature2=value,... The =value part can be ommitted if the value is 1.

    Any one of the options may be absent. If FAMILY-LIST is absent, then the family_name field of the resulting font description will be initialized to null. If STYLE-OPTIONS is missing, then all style options will be set to the default values. If SIZE is missing, the size in the resulting font description will be set to 0.

    A typical example:

    Cantarell Italic Light 15 @‍wght=200 #‍tnum=1
    

    Parameters

    • str: string

      string representation of a font description.

    Returns Pango.FontDescription

    a new Pango.FontDescription.