PathText QML Type

Sets whether the font weight is bold.

Sets the capitalization for the text.

PathText { text: "Hello"; font.capitalization: Font.AllLowercase }

If the selected font does not contain a certain character, Qt automatically chooses a similar-looking fallback font that contains the character. By default this is done on a character-by-character basis.

This means that in certain uncommon cases, many different fonts may be used to represent one string of text even if it's in the same script. Setting contextFontMerging to true will try finding the fallback font that matches the largest subset of the input string instead. This will be more expensive for strings where missing glyphs occur, but may give more consistent results. By default, contextFontMerging is false.

This property was introduced in Qt 6.8.

See also QFont::StyleStrategy.

Sets the family name of the font.

The family name is case insensitive and may optionally include a foundry name, e.g. "Helvetica [Cronyx]". If the family is available from more than one foundry and the foundry isn't specified, an arbitrary foundry is chosen. If the family isn't available a family will be set using the font matching algorithm.

Applies integer values to specific OpenType features when shaping the text based on the contents in features. This provides advanced access to the font shaping process, and can be used to support font features that are otherwise not covered in the API.

The font features are represented by a map from four-letter tags to integer values. This integer value passed along with the tag in most cases represents a boolean value: A zero value means the feature is disabled, and a non-zero value means it is enabled. For certain font features, however, it may have other interpretations. For example, when applied to the salt feature, the value is an index that specifies the stylistic alternative to use.

For example, the frac font feature will convert diagonal fractions separated with a slash (such as 1/2) with a different representation. Typically this will involve baking the full fraction into a single character width (such as ½).

If a font supports the frac feature, then it can be enabled in the shaper as in the following code:

Text {
    text: "One divided by two is 1/2"
    font.family: "MyFractionFont"
    font.features: { "frac": 1 }
}

Multiple features can be assigned values in the same mapping. For instance, if you would like to also disable kerning for the font, you can explicitly disable this as follows:

Text {
    text: "One divided by two is 1/2"
    font.family: "MyFractionFont"
    font.features: { "frac": 1, "kern": 0 }
}

You can also collect the font properties in an object:

Text {
    text: "One divided by two is 1/2"
    font: {
        family: "MyFractionFont"
        features: { "frac": 1, "kern": 0 }
    }
}

This property was introduced in Qt 6.6.

See also QFont::setFeature().

Sets whether the font has an italic style.

Enables or disables the kerning OpenType feature when shaping the text. Disabling this may improve performance when creating or changing the text, at the expense of some cosmetic features. The default value is true.

PathText { text: "OATS FLAVOUR WAY"; font.kerning: false }

Sets the letter spacing for the font.

Letter spacing changes the default spacing between individual letters in the font. A positive value increases the letter spacing by the corresponding pixels; a negative value decreases the spacing.

Sets the font size in pixels.

Using this function makes the font device dependent. Use pointSize to set the size of the font in a device independent manner.

Sets the font size in points. The point size must be greater than zero.

Sometimes, a font will apply complex rules to a set of characters in order to display them correctly. In some writing systems, such as Brahmic scripts, this is required in order for the text to be legible, but in e.g. Latin script, it is merely a cosmetic feature. Setting the preferShaping property to false will disable all such features when they are not required, which will improve performance in most cases.

The default value is true.

PathText { text: "Some text"; font.preferShaping: false }

competing sets of the vertical line metrics that provide the ascent, descent and leading of the font. These are often referred to as the win (Windows) metrics and the typo (typographical) metrics. While the specification recommends using the typo metrics for line spacing, many applications prefer the win metrics unless the USE_TYPO_METRICS flag is set in the fsSelection field of the font. For backwards-compatibility reasons, this is also the case for Qt applications. This is not an issue for fonts that set the USE_TYPO_METRICS flag to indicate that the typo metrics are valid, nor for fonts where the win metrics and typo metrics match up. However, for certain fonts the win metrics may be larger than the preferable line spacing and the USE_TYPO_METRICS flag may be unset by mistake. For such fonts, setting font.preferTypoLineMetrics may give superior results.

By default, preferTypoLineMetrics is false.

This property was introduced in Qt 6.8.

See also QFont::StyleStrategy.

Sets whether the font has a strikeout style.

Sets the style name of the font.

The style name is case insensitive. If set, the font will be matched against style name instead of the font properties font.weight, font.bold and font.italic.

Sets whether the text is underlined.

Applies floating point values to variable axes in variable fonts.

Variable fonts provide a way to store multiple variations (with different weights, widths or styles) in the same font file. The variations are given as floating point values for a pre-defined set of parameters, called "variable axes". Specific instances are typically given names by the font designer, and, in Qt, these can be selected using setStyleName() just like traditional sub-families.

In some cases, it is also useful to provide arbitrary values for the different axes. For instance, if a font has a Regular and Bold sub-family, you may want a weight in-between these. You could then manually request this by supplying a custom value for the "wght" axis in the font.

Text {
    text: "Foobar"
    font.family: "MyVariableFont"
    font.variableAxes: { "wght": (Font.Normal + Font.Bold) / 2.0 }
}

If the "wght" axis is supported by the font and the given value is within its defined range, a font corresponding to the weight 550.0 will be provided.

There are a few standard axes than many fonts provide, such as "wght" (weight), "wdth" (width), "ital" (italic) and "opsz" (optical size). They each have indivdual ranges defined in the font itself. For instance, "wght" may span from 100 to 900 (QFont::Thin to QFont::Black) whereas "ital" can span from 0 to 1 (from not italic to fully italic).

A font may also choose to define custom axes; the only limitation is that the name has to meet the requirements for a QFont::Tag (sequence of four latin-1 characters.)

By default, no variable axes are set.

This property was introduced in Qt 6.7.

See also QFont::setVariableAxis().

Sets the font's weight.

The weight can be one of:

PathText { text: "Hello"; font.weight: Font.DemiBold }

Sets the word spacing for the font.

Word spacing changes the default spacing between individual words. A positive value increases the word spacing by a corresponding amount of pixels, while a negative value decreases the inter-word spacing accordingly.

The text for which this PathText should contain the outlines.

The horizontal position of the PathText's baseline.

The vertical position of the PathText's baseline.