fonts

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Package fonts provides a cross-platform way to load font data in Go
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http://godoc.org/github.com/tmc/fonts

Currently supported: MacOS, (generic) Linux, Windows
License: ISC

Documentation

Overview

Package fonts provides a cross-platform interface to list and load font data

Index

• Variables
• func Load(fontNames ...string) (io.Reader, error)
• type Font
  • func List() ([]Font, error)
  • func (f Font) Load() (io.Reader, error)

Examples

• Load

Variables

var FontPaths = []string{
	"$HOME/.fonts/**/*",
	"/usr/local/share/fonts/**/*",
	"/usr/share/fonts/**/*",
	"/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/**/*",
}

The list of font paths on Linux this could be improved to use fontconfig

var ValidExtensions = []string{"ttf", "otf"}

ValidExtensions is the list of file extensions to consider font files

Functions

func Load

func Load(fontNames ...string) (io.Reader, error)

Load attempts to load font file data given font names

Example

fontReader, _ := Load("Helvetica", "DejaVuSansMono")
fontBytes, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(fontReader)
_, err := freetype.ParseFont(fontBytes) // "code.google.com/p/freetype-go/freetype"
fmt.Println(err)

Output:

<nil>

Types

type Font

type Font struct {
	Name   string
	Source string
}

Font holds the name of a font and an optional string indicating the font's source

func List

func List() ([]Font, error)

List the available fonts

func (Font) Load

func (f Font) Load() (io.Reader, error)

Load attempts to load the font's data from its Name