Font properties

This example lists the attributes of an FT2Font object, which describe global font properties. For individual character metrics, use the Glyph object, as returned by load_char.

Num instances:   0
Num faces:       1
Num glyphs:      5343
Family name:     DejaVu Sans
Style name:      Oblique
PS name:         DejaVuSans-Oblique
Num fixed:       0
Bbox:                (-2080, -717, 3398, 2187)
EM:                  2048
Ascender:            1901
Descender:           -483
Height:              2384
Max adv width:       3461
Max adv height:      2384
Underline pos:       -175
Underline thickness: 90
Italic:           True
Bold:             False
Scalable:         True
Fixed Sizes:      False
Fixed Width:      False
Sfnt:             True
Horizontal:       True
Vertical:         False
Kerning:          True
Fast Glyphs:      False
Multiple Masters: False
Glyph Names:      True
External Stream:  True
Hinter:           True
Cid Keyed:        False
Tricky:           False
Color:            False

import os

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.ft2font as ft

font = ft.FT2Font(
    # Use a font shipped with Matplotlib.
    os.path.join(matplotlib.get_data_path(),
                 'fonts/ttf/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf'))

print('Num instances:  ', font.num_named_instances)  # number of named instances in file
print('Num faces:      ', font.num_faces)            # number of faces in file
print('Num glyphs:     ', font.num_glyphs)           # number of glyphs in the face
print('Family name:    ', font.family_name)          # face family name
print('Style name:     ', font.style_name)           # face style name
print('PS name:        ', font.postscript_name)      # the postscript name
print('Num fixed:      ', font.num_fixed_sizes)      # number of embedded bitmaps

# the following are only available if face.scalable
if font.scalable:
    # the face global bounding box (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)
    print('Bbox:               ', font.bbox)
    # number of font units covered by the EM
    print('EM:                 ', font.units_per_EM)
    # the ascender in 26.6 units
    print('Ascender:           ', font.ascender)
    # the descender in 26.6 units
    print('Descender:          ', font.descender)
    # the height in 26.6 units
    print('Height:             ', font.height)
    # maximum horizontal cursor advance
    print('Max adv width:      ', font.max_advance_width)
    # same for vertical layout
    print('Max adv height:     ', font.max_advance_height)
    # vertical position of the underline bar
    print('Underline pos:      ', font.underline_position)
    # vertical thickness of the underline
    print('Underline thickness:', font.underline_thickness)

for flag in ft.StyleFlags:
    name = flag.name.replace('_', ' ').title() + ':'
    print(f"{name:17}", flag in font.style_flags)

for flag in ft.FaceFlags:
    name = flag.name.replace('_', ' ').title() + ':'
    print(f"{name:17}", flag in font.face_flags)