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[?] Access the Local List of Fonts?

Mark Greenberg

Posted 9 years ago

I would like to grab the list of fonts from the local system, whatever system my app happens to be running in. From there I'd use that list to format text. Can Wolfram Language get the local list of fonts? If so, how? Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg

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Vitaliy Kaurov

Vitaliy Kaurov, WOLFRAM Research

Posted 9 years ago

This works since version 10.1: $FontFamilies

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Mark Greenberg

Posted 9 years ago

Very interesting. I had not used the Names[] function before, always using the docs to find what I need. The Wolfram Language usually has intuitively named functions and symbols, so searching the rule base with Names[] seems like a good way to find things that are hard to find in the docs. Thanks again.

POSTED BY: Mark Greenberg

Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs, Wolfram Alpha

Posted 9 years ago

Glad to help. The way I found it was by searching for symbols with "Font" in the name, In[5]:= Names["Font"] Out[5]= {"DefaultFont", "DefaultFontProperties", "Font", "FontColor", "FontFamily", "FontForm", "FontName", "FontOpacity", "FontPostScriptName", "FontProperties", "FontReencoding", "FontSize", "FontSlant", "FontSubstitutions", "FontTracking", "FontVariations", "FontWeight", "PrivateFontOptions", "$DefaultFont", "$FontFamilies"} which is usually a good way of hunting for options

Glad to help. The way I found it was by searching for symbols with "Font" in the name,

In[5]:= Names["*Font*"]

Out[5]= {"DefaultFont", "DefaultFontProperties", "Font", "FontColor", 
"FontFamily", "FontForm", "FontName", "FontOpacity", 
"FontPostScriptName", "FontProperties", "FontReencoding", "FontSize", 
"FontSlant", "FontSubstitutions", "FontTracking", "FontVariations", 
"FontWeight", "PrivateFontOptions", "$DefaultFont", "$FontFamilies"}

which is usually a good way of hunting for options

POSTED BY: Jason Biggs