class QFont

The QFont class specifies a query for a font used for drawing text. More…

Synopsis

Methods

• def __init__()

• def bold()

• def capitalization()

• def clearFeatures()

• def clearVariableAxes()

• def defaultFamily()

• def exactMatch()

• def families()

• def family()

• def featureTags()

• def featureValue()

• def fixedPitch()

• def fromString()

• def hintingPreference()

• def isCopyOf()

• def isFeatureSet()

• def isVariableAxisSet()

• def italic()

• def kerning()

• def key()

• def legacyWeight()

• def letterSpacing()

• def letterSpacingType()

• def __ne__()

• def __lt__()

• def __eq__()

• def overline()

• def pixelSize()

• def pointSize()

• def pointSizeF()

• def resolve()

• def resolveMask()

• def setBold()

• def setCapitalization()

• def setFamilies()

• def setFamily()

• def setFeature()

• def setFixedPitch()

• def setHintingPreference()

• def setItalic()

• def setKerning()

• def setLegacyWeight()

• def setLetterSpacing()

• def setOverline()

• def setPixelSize()

• def setPointSize()

• def setPointSizeF()

• def setResolveMask()

• def setStretch()

• def setStrikeOut()

• def setStyle()

• def setStyleHint()

• def setStyleName()

• def setStyleStrategy()

• def setUnderline()

• def setVariableAxis()

• def setWeight()

• def setWordSpacing()

• def stretch()

• def strikeOut()

• def style()

• def styleHint()

• def styleName()

• def styleStrategy()

• def swap()

• def toString()

• def underline()

• def unsetFeature()

• def unsetVariableAxis()

• def variableAxisTags()

• def variableAxisValue()

• def weight()

• def wordSpacing()

Static functions

• def cacheStatistics()

• def cleanup()

• def initialize()

• def insertSubstitution()

• def insertSubstitutions()

• def removeSubstitutions()

• def substitute()

• def substitutes()

• def substitutions()

Note

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Detailed Description

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QFont can be regarded as a query for one or more fonts on the system.

When you create a QFont object you specify various attributes that you want the font to have. Qt will use the font with the specified attributes, or if no matching font exists, Qt will use the closest matching installed font. The attributes of the font that is actually used are retrievable from a QFontInfo object. If the window system provides an exact match exactMatch() returns true. Use QFontMetricsF to get measurements, e.g. the pixel length of a string using QFontMetrics::width().

Attributes which are not specifically set will not affect the font selection algorithm, and default values will be preferred instead.

To load a specific physical font, typically represented by a single file, use QRawFont instead.

Note that a QGuiApplication instance must exist before a QFont can be used. You can set the application’s default font with QGuiApplication::setFont().

If a chosen font does not include all the characters that need to be displayed, QFont will try to find the characters in the nearest equivalent fonts. When a QPainter draws a character from a font the QFont will report whether or not it has the character; if it does not, QPainter will draw an unfilled square.

Create QFonts like this:

serifFont = QFont("Times", 10, QFont.Bold)
sansFont = QFont("Helvetica [Cronyx]", 12)

The attributes set in the constructor can also be set later, e.g. setFamily() , setPointSize() , setPointSizeF() , setWeight() and setItalic() . The remaining attributes must be set after construction, e.g. setBold() , setUnderline() , setOverline() , setStrikeOut() and setFixedPitch() . QFontInfo objects should be created after the font’s attributes have been set. A QFontInfo object will not change, even if you change the font’s attributes. The corresponding “get” functions, e.g. family() , pointSize() , etc., return the values that were set, even though the values used may differ. The actual values are available from a QFontInfo object.

If the requested font family is unavailable you can influence the font matching algorithm by choosing a particular StyleHint and StyleStrategy with setStyleHint() . The default family (corresponding to the current style hint) is returned by defaultFamily() .

You can provide substitutions for font family names using insertSubstitution() and insertSubstitutions() . Substitutions can be removed with removeSubstitutions() . Use substitute() to retrieve a family’s first substitute, or the family name itself if it has no substitutes. Use substitutes() to retrieve a list of a family’s substitutes (which may be empty). After substituting a font, you must trigger the updating of the font by destroying and re-creating all QFont objects.

Every QFont has a key() which you can use, for example, as the key in a cache or dictionary. If you want to store a user’s font preferences you could use QSettings, writing the font information with toString() and reading it back with fromString() . The operator<<() and operator>>() functions are also available, but they work on a data stream.

It is possible to set the height of characters shown on the screen to a specified number of pixels with setPixelSize() ; however using setPointSize() has a similar effect and provides device independence.

Loading fonts can be expensive, especially on X11. QFont contains extensive optimizations to make the copying of QFont objects fast, and to cache the results of the slow window system functions it depends upon.

The font matching algorithm works as follows:

1. The specified font families (set by setFamilies() ) are searched for.

2. If not, a replacement font that supports the writing system is selected. The font matching algorithm will try to find the best match for all the properties set in the QFont . How this is done varies from platform to platform.

3. If no font exists on the system that can support the text, then special “missing character” boxes will be shown in its place.

Note

If the selected font, though supporting the writing system in general, is missing glyphs for one or more specific characters, then Qt will try to find a fallback font for this or these particular characters. This feature can be disabled using NoFontMerging style strategy.

In Windows a request for the “Courier” font is automatically changed to “Courier New”, an improved version of Courier that allows for smooth scaling. The older “Courier” bitmap font can be selected by setting the PreferBitmap style strategy (see setStyleStrategy() ).

Once a font is found, the remaining attributes are matched in order of priority:

1. fixedPitch()

2. pointSize() (see below)

3. weight()

4. style()

If you have a font which matches on family, even if none of the other attributes match, this font will be chosen in preference to a font which doesn’t match on family but which does match on the other attributes. This is because font family is the dominant search criteria.

The point size is defined to match if it is within 20% of the requested point size. When several fonts match and are only distinguished by point size, the font with the closest point size to the one requested will be chosen.

The actual family, font size, weight and other font attributes used for drawing text will depend on what’s available for the chosen family under the window system. A QFontInfo object can be used to determine the actual values used for drawing the text.

Examples:

f = QFont("Helvetica")

If you had both an Adobe and a Cronyx Helvetica, you might get either.

f = QFont("Helvetica [Cronyx]")

You can specify the foundry you want in the family name. The font f in the above example will be set to “Helvetica [Cronyx]”.

To determine the attributes of the font actually used in the window system, use a QFontInfo object, e.g.

info = QFontInfo(f1)
family = info.family()

To find out font metrics use a QFontMetrics object, e.g.

fm = QFontMetrics(f1)
textWidthInPixels = fm.horizontalAdvance("How many pixels wide is self text?")
textHeightInPixels = fm.height()

For more general information on fonts, see the comp.fonts FAQ . Information on encodings can be found from the UTR17 page.

See also

QFontMetrics QFontInfo QFontDatabase

class StyleHint

Style hints are used by the font matching algorithm to find an appropriate default family if a selected font family is not available.

Constant	Description
QFont.AnyStyle	leaves the font matching algorithm to choose the family. This is the default.
QFont.SansSerif	the font matcher prefer sans serif fonts.
QFont.Helvetica	is a synonym for SansSerif.
QFont.Serif	the font matcher prefers serif fonts.
QFont.Times	is a synonym for Serif.
QFont.TypeWriter	the font matcher prefers fixed pitch fonts.
QFont.Courier	a synonym for TypeWriter.
QFont.OldEnglish	the font matcher prefers decorative fonts.
QFont.Decorative	is a synonym for OldEnglish.
QFont.Monospace	the font matcher prefers fonts that map to the CSS generic font-family ‘monospace’.
QFont.Fantasy	the font matcher prefers fonts that map to the CSS generic font-family ‘fantasy’.
QFont.Cursive	the font matcher prefers fonts that map to the CSS generic font-family ‘cursive’.
QFont.System	the font matcher prefers system fonts.

class StyleStrategy

(inherits enum.Flag) The style strategy tells the font matching algorithm what type of fonts should be used to find an appropriate default family.

The following strategies are available:

Constant	Description
QFont.PreferDefault	the default style strategy. It does not prefer any type of font.
QFont.PreferBitmap	prefers bitmap fonts (as opposed to outline fonts).
QFont.PreferDevice	prefers device fonts.
QFont.PreferOutline	prefers outline fonts (as opposed to bitmap fonts).
QFont.ForceOutline	forces the use of outline fonts.
QFont.NoAntialias	don’t antialias the fonts.
QFont.NoSubpixelAntialias	avoid subpixel antialiasing on the fonts if possible.
QFont.PreferAntialias	antialias if possible.
QFont.ContextFontMerging	If the selected font does not contain a certain character, then 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, multiple fonts may be used to represent one string of text even if it’s in the same script. Setting ContextFontMerging 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. If NoFontMerging is set, then ContextFontMerging will have no effect.
QFont.PreferTypoLineMetrics	For compatibility reasons, OpenType fonts contain two 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 PreferTypoLineMetrics may give superior results.
QFont.NoFontMerging	If the font selected for a certain writing system does not contain a character requested to draw, then Qt automatically chooses a similar looking font that contains the character. The NoFontMerging flag disables this feature. Please note that enabling this flag will not prevent Qt from automatically picking a suitable font when the selected font does not support the writing system of the text.
QFont.PreferNoShaping	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. The PreferNoShaping flag will disable all such features when they are not required, which will improve performance in most cases (since Qt 5.10).

Any of these may be OR-ed with one of these flags:

Constant	Description
QFont.PreferMatch	prefer an exact match. The font matcher will try to use the exact font size that has been specified.
QFont.PreferQuality	prefer the best quality font. The font matcher will use the nearest standard point size that the font supports.

class HintingPreference

This enum describes the different levels of hinting that can be applied to glyphs to improve legibility on displays where it might be warranted by the density of pixels.

Constant	Description
QFont.PreferDefaultHinting	Use the default hinting level for the target platform.
QFont.PreferNoHinting	If possible, render text without hinting the outlines of the glyphs. The text layout will be typographically accurate and scalable, using the same metrics as are used e.g. when printing.
QFont.PreferVerticalHinting	If possible, render text with no horizontal hinting, but align glyphs to the pixel grid in the vertical direction. The text will appear crisper on displays where the density is too low to give an accurate rendering of the glyphs. But since the horizontal metrics of the glyphs are unhinted, the text’s layout will be scalable to higher density devices (such as printers) without impacting details such as line breaks.
QFont.PreferFullHinting	If possible, render text with hinting in both horizontal and vertical directions. The text will be altered to optimize legibility on the target device, but since the metrics will depend on the target size of the text, the positions of glyphs, line breaks, and other typographical detail will not scale, meaning that a text layout may look different on devices with different pixel densities.

Please note that this enum only describes a preference, as the full range of hinting levels are not supported on all of Qt’s supported platforms. The following table details the effect of a given hinting preference on a selected set of target platforms.

	PreferDefaultHinting	PreferNoHinting	PreferVerticalHinting	PreferFullHinting
Windows and DirectWrite enabled in Qt	Full hinting	Vertical hinting	Vertical hinting	Full hinting
FreeType	Operating System setting	No hinting	Vertical hinting (light)	Full hinting
Cocoa on macOS	No hinting	No hinting	No hinting	No hinting

Added in version 4.8.

class Weight

(inherits enum.IntEnum) Qt uses a weighting scale from 1 to 1000 compatible with OpenType. A weight of 1 will be thin, whilst 1000 will be extremely black.

This enum contains the predefined font weights:

Constant	Description
QFont.Thin	100
QFont.ExtraLight	200
QFont.Light	300
QFont.Normal	400
QFont.Medium	500
QFont.DemiBold	600
QFont.Bold	700
QFont.ExtraBold	800
QFont.Black	900

class Style

This enum describes the different styles of glyphs that are used to display text.

Constant	Description
QFont.StyleNormal	Normal glyphs used in unstyled text.
QFont.StyleItalic	Italic glyphs that are specifically designed for the purpose of representing italicized text.
QFont.StyleOblique	Glyphs with an italic appearance that are typically based on the unstyled glyphs, but are not fine-tuned for the purpose of representing italicized text.

See also

Weight

class Stretch

(inherits enum.IntEnum) Predefined stretch values that follow the CSS naming convention. The higher the value, the more stretched the text is.

Constant	Description
QFont.AnyStretch	0 Accept any stretch matched using the other QFont properties
QFont.UltraCondensed	50
QFont.ExtraCondensed	62
QFont.Condensed	75
QFont.SemiCondensed	87
QFont.Unstretched	100
QFont.SemiExpanded	112
QFont.Expanded	125
QFont.ExtraExpanded	150
QFont.UltraExpanded	200

See also

setStretch() stretch()

class Capitalization

Rendering option for text this font applies to.

Constant	Description
QFont.MixedCase	This is the normal text rendering option where no capitalization change is applied.
QFont.AllUppercase	This alters the text to be rendered in all uppercase type.
QFont.AllLowercase	This alters the text to be rendered in all lowercase type.
QFont.SmallCaps	This alters the text to be rendered in small-caps type.
QFont.Capitalize	This alters the text to be rendered with the first character of each word as an uppercase character.

class SpacingType

Constant	Description
QFont.PercentageSpacing	A value of 100 will keep the spacing unchanged; a value of 200 will enlarge the spacing after a character by the width of the character itself.
QFont.AbsoluteSpacing	A positive value increases the letter spacing by the corresponding pixels; a negative value decreases the spacing.

__init__()

Constructs a font object that uses the application’s default font.

See also

font()

__init__(font)

Parameters:

font – QFont

Constructs a font that is a copy of font.

__init__(font, pd)

Parameters:

• font – QFont

• pd – QPaintDevice

Constructs a font from font for use on the paint device pd.

__init__(family[, pointSize=-1[, weight=-1[, italic=false]]])

Parameters:

• family – str

• pointSize – int

• weight – int

• italic – bool

Constructs a font object with the specified family, pointSize, weight and italic settings.

If pointSize is zero or negative, the point size of the font is set to a system-dependent default value. Generally, this is 12 points.

The family name may optionally also 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.

This will split the family string on a comma and call setFamilies() with the resulting list. To preserve a font that uses a comma in its name, use the constructor that takes a QStringList.

See also

Weight setFamily() setPointSize() setWeight() setItalic() setStyleHint() setFamilies() font()

__init__(families[, pointSize=-1[, weight=-1[, italic=false]]])

Parameters:

• families – list of strings

• pointSize – int

• weight – int

• italic – bool

Constructs a font object with the specified families, pointSize, weight and italic settings.

If pointSize is zero or negative, the point size of the font is set to a system-dependent default value. Generally, this is 12 points.

Each family name entry in families may optionally also 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.

See also

Weight setPointSize() setWeight() setItalic() setStyleHint() setFamilies() font()

bold()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if weight() is a value greater than Medium ; otherwise returns false.

See also

weight() setBold() bold()

static cacheStatistics()

capitalization()

Return type:

Capitalization

Returns the current capitalization type of the font.

See also

setCapitalization()

static cleanup()

clearFeatures()

Clears any previously set features on the QFont .

See setFeature() for more details on font features.

See also

Tag setFeature() unsetFeature() featureTags() featureValue()

clearVariableAxes()

Clears any previously set variable axis values on the QFont .

See setVariableAxis() for more details on variable axes.

See also

Tag setVariableAxis() unsetVariableAxis() isVariableAxisSet() variableAxisValue()

defaultFamily()

Return type:

str

Returns the family name that corresponds to the current style hint.

See also

StyleHint styleHint() setStyleHint()

exactMatch()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if a window system font exactly matching the settings of this font is available.

See also

QFontInfo

families()

Return type:

list of strings

Returns the requested font family names, i.e. the names set in the last setFamilies() call or via the constructor. Otherwise it returns an empty list.

See also

setFamily() setFamilies() family() substitutes() substitute()

family()

Return type:

str

Returns the requested font family name. This will always be the same as the first entry in the families() call.

See also

setFamily() substitutes() substitute() setFamilies() families()

featureTags()

Return type:

.list of QFont.Tag

Returns a list of tags for all font features currently set on this QFont .

See setFeature() for more details on font features.

See also

Tag setFeature() unsetFeature() isFeatureSet() clearFeatures()

featureValue(tag)

Parameters:

tag – Tag

Return type:

int

Returns the value set for a specific feature tag. If the tag has not been set, 0 will be returned instead.

See setFeature() for more details on font features.

See also

Tag setFeature() unsetFeature() featureTags() isFeatureSet()

fixedPitch()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if fixed pitch has been set; otherwise returns false.

See also

setFixedPitch() fixedPitch()

fromString(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – str

Return type:

bool

Sets this font to match the description descrip. The description is a comma-separated list of the font attributes, as returned by toString() .

See also

toString()

hintingPreference()

Return type:

HintingPreference

Returns the currently preferred hinting level for glyphs rendered with this font.

See also

setHintingPreference()

static initialize()

static insertSubstitution(arg__1, arg__2)

Parameters:

• arg__1 – str

• arg__2 – str

Inserts substituteName into the substitution table for the family familyName.

After substituting a font, trigger the updating of the font by destroying and re-creating all QFont objects.

See also

insertSubstitutions() removeSubstitutions() substitutions() substitute() substitutes()

static insertSubstitutions(arg__1, arg__2)

Parameters:

• arg__1 – str

• arg__2 – list of strings

Inserts the list of families substituteNames into the substitution list for familyName.

After substituting a font, trigger the updating of the font by destroying and re-creating all QFont objects.

See also

insertSubstitution() removeSubstitutions() substitutions() substitute()

isCopyOf(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – QFont

Return type:

bool

Returns true if this font and f are copies of each other, i.e. one of them was created as a copy of the other and neither has been modified since. This is much stricter than equality.

See also

operator=() operator==()

isFeatureSet(tag)

Parameters:

tag – Tag

Return type:

bool

Returns true if a value for the feature given by tag has been set on the QFont , otherwise returns false.

See setFeature() for more details on font features.

See also

Tag setFeature() unsetFeature() featureTags() featureValue()

isVariableAxisSet(tag)

Parameters:

tag – Tag

Return type:

bool

Returns true if a value for the variable axis given by tag has been set on the QFont , otherwise returns false.

See setVariableAxis() for more details on font variable axes.

See also

Tag setVariableAxis() unsetVariableAxis() variableAxisValue() clearVariableAxes()

italic()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if the style() of the font is not StyleNormal

See also

setItalic() style()

kerning()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if kerning should be used when drawing text with this font.

See also

setKerning()

key()

Return type:

str

Returns the font’s key, a textual representation of a font. It is typically used as the key for a cache or dictionary of fonts.

See also

QMap

legacyWeight()

Return type:

int

Note

This function is deprecated.

Use weight() instead.

Returns the weight of the font converted to the non-standard font weight scale used in Qt 5 and earlier versions.

Since Qt 6, the OpenType standard’s font weight scale is used instead of a non-standard scale. This requires conversion from values that use the old scale. For convenience, this function may be used when porting from code which uses the old weight scale.

See also

setLegacyWeight() setWeight() weight() QFontInfo

letterSpacing()

Return type:

float

Returns the letter spacing for the font.

See also

setLetterSpacing() letterSpacingType() setWordSpacing()

letterSpacingType()

Return type:

SpacingType

Returns the spacing type used for letter spacing.

See also

letterSpacing() setLetterSpacing() setWordSpacing()

__ne__(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – QFont

Return type:

bool

Returns true if this font is different from f; otherwise returns false.

Two QFonts are considered to be different if their font attributes are different.

See also

operator==()

__lt__(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – QFont

Return type:

bool

Provides an arbitrary comparison of this font and font f. All that is guaranteed is that the operator returns false if both fonts are equal and that (f1 < f2) == !(f2 < f1) if the fonts are not equal.

This function is useful in some circumstances, for example if you want to use QFont objects as keys in a QMap.

See also

operator==() operator!=() isCopyOf()

__eq__(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – QFont

Return type:

bool

Returns true if this font is equal to f; otherwise returns false.

Two QFonts are considered equal if their font attributes are equal.

See also

operator!=() isCopyOf()

overline()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if overline has been set; otherwise returns false.

See also

setOverline()

pixelSize()

Return type:

int

Returns the pixel size of the font if it was set with setPixelSize() . Returns -1 if the size was set with setPointSize() or setPointSizeF() .

See also

setPixelSize() pointSize() pointSize() pixelSize()

pointSize()

Return type:

int

Returns the point size of the font. Returns -1 if the font size was specified in pixels.

See also

setPointSize() pointSizeF()

pointSizeF()

Return type:

float

Returns the point size of the font. Returns -1 if the font size was specified in pixels.

See also

pointSize() setPointSizeF() pixelSize() pointSize() pixelSize()

static removeSubstitutions(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – str

Removes all the substitutions for familyName.

See also

insertSubstitutions() insertSubstitution() substitutions() substitute()

resolve(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – QFont

Return type:

QFont

Returns a new QFont that has attributes copied from other that have not been previously set on this font.

resolveMask()

Return type:

int

setBold(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

If enable is true sets the font’s weight to Bold ; otherwise sets the weight to Normal .

For finer boldness control use setWeight() .

Note

If styleName() is set, this value may be ignored, or if supported on the platform, the font artificially embolded.

See also

bold() setWeight()

setCapitalization(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – Capitalization

Sets the capitalization of the text in this font to caps.

A font’s capitalization makes the text appear in the selected capitalization mode.

See also

capitalization()

setFamilies(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – list of strings

Sets the list of family names for the font. The names are case insensitive and may include a foundry name. The first family in families will be set as the main family for the font.

Each family name entry in families may optionally also 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.

See also

family() families() setFamily() setStyleHint() QFontInfo

setFamily(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – str

Sets the family name of the font. The name is case insensitive and may include a foundry name.

The family name may optionally also 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.

See also

family() setStyleHint() setFamilies() families() QFontInfo

setFeature(tag, value)

Parameters:

• tag – Tag

• value – int

This is an overloaded function.

Applies an integer value to the typographical feature specified by tag when shaping the text. 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 feature is specified by a tag , which is typically encoded from the four-character feature name in the font feature map.

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 by setting features["frac"] = 1 in the font feature map.

Note

By default, Qt will enable and disable certain font features based on other font properties. In particular, the kern feature will be enabled/disabled depending on the kerning() property of the QFont . In addition, all ligature features (liga, clig, dlig, hlig) will be disabled if a letterSpacing() is applied, but only for writing systems where the use of ligature is cosmetic. For writing systems where ligatures are required, the features will remain in their default state. The values set using setFeature() and related functions will override the default behavior. If, for instance, the feature “kern” is set to 1, then kerning will always be enabled, regardless of whether the kerning property is set to false. Similarly, if it is set to 0, then it will always be disabled. To reset a font feature to its default behavior, you can unset it using unsetFeature() .

See also

Tag clearFeatures() unsetFeature() featureTags()

setFixedPitch(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

If enable is true, sets fixed pitch on; otherwise sets fixed pitch off.

See also

fixedPitch() QFontInfo

setHintingPreference(hintingPreference)

Parameters:

hintingPreference – HintingPreference

Set the preference for the hinting level of the glyphs to hintingPreference. This is a hint to the underlying font rendering system to use a certain level of hinting, and has varying support across platforms. See the table in the documentation for HintingPreference for more details.

The default hinting preference is PreferDefaultHinting .

See also

hintingPreference()

setItalic(b)

Parameters:

b – bool

Sets the style() of the font to StyleItalic if enable is true; otherwise the style is set to StyleNormal .

Note

If styleName() is set, this value may be ignored, or if supported on the platform, the font may be rendered tilted instead of picking a designed italic font-variant.

See also

italic() QFontInfo

setKerning(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

Enables kerning for this font if enable is true; otherwise disables it. By default, kerning is enabled.

When kerning is enabled, glyph metrics do not add up anymore, even for Latin text. In other words, the assumption that width(‘a’) + width(‘b’) is equal to width(“ab”) is not necessarily true.

See also

kerning() QFontMetrics

setLegacyWeight(legacyWeight)

Parameters:

legacyWeight – int

Note

This function is deprecated.

Use setWeight() instead.

Sets the weight of the font to legacyWeight using the legacy font weight scale of Qt 5 and previous versions.

Since Qt 6, the OpenType standard’s font weight scale is used instead of a non-standard scale. This requires conversion from values that use the old scale. For convenience, this function may be used when porting from code which uses the old weight scale.

Note

If styleName() is set, this value may be ignored for font selection.

See also

legacyWeight() setWeight() weight() QFontInfo

setLetterSpacing(type, spacing)

Parameters:

• type – SpacingType

• spacing – float

Sets the letter spacing for the font to spacing and the type of spacing to type.

Letter spacing changes the default spacing between individual letters in the font. The spacing between the letters can be made smaller as well as larger either in percentage of the character width or in pixels, depending on the selected spacing type.

See also

letterSpacing() letterSpacingType() setWordSpacing()

setOverline(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

If enable is true, sets overline on; otherwise sets overline off.

See also

overline() QFontInfo

setPixelSize(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – int

Sets the font size to pixelSize pixels, with a maxiumum size of an unsigned 16-bit integer.

Using this function makes the font device dependent. Use setPointSize() or setPointSizeF() to set the size of the font in a device independent manner.

See also

pixelSize()

setPointSize(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – int

Sets the point size to pointSize. The point size must be greater than zero.

See also

pointSize() setPointSizeF()

setPointSizeF(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – float

Sets the point size to pointSize. The point size must be greater than zero. The requested precision may not be achieved on all platforms.

See also

pointSizeF() setPointSize() setPixelSize()

setResolveMask(mask)

Parameters:

mask – int

setStretch(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – int

Sets the stretch factor for the font.

The stretch factor matches a condensed or expanded version of the font or applies a stretch transform that changes the width of all characters in the font by factor percent. For example, setting factor to 150 results in all characters in the font being 1.5 times (ie. 150%) wider. The minimum stretch factor is 1, and the maximum stretch factor is 4000. The default stretch factor is AnyStretch, which will accept any stretch factor and not apply any transform on the font.

The stretch factor is only applied to outline fonts. The stretch factor is ignored for bitmap fonts.

Note

When matching a font with a native non-default stretch factor, requesting a stretch of 100 will stretch it back to a medium width font.

See also

stretch() Stretch

setStrikeOut(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

If enable is true, sets strikeout on; otherwise sets strikeout off.

See also

strikeOut() QFontInfo

setStyle(style)

Parameters:

style – Style

Sets the style of the font to style.

See also

style() italic() QFontInfo

setStyleHint(arg__1[, strategy=QFont.StyleStrategy.PreferDefault])

Parameters:

• arg__1 – StyleHint

• strategy – StyleStrategy

Sets the style hint and strategy to hint and strategy, respectively.

If these aren’t set explicitly the style hint will default to AnyStyle and the style strategy to PreferDefault.

Qt does not support style hints on X11 since this information is not provided by the window system.

See also

StyleHint styleHint() StyleStrategy styleStrategy() QFontInfo

setStyleName(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – str

Sets the style name of the font to styleName. When set, other style properties like style() and weight() will be ignored for font matching, though they may be simulated afterwards if supported by the platform’s font engine.

Due to the lower quality of artificially simulated styles, and the lack of full cross platform support, it is not recommended to use matching by style name together with matching by style properties

See also

styleName()

setStyleStrategy(s)

Parameters:

s – StyleStrategy

Sets the style strategy for the font to s.

See also

styleStrategy() StyleStrategy

setUnderline(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

If enable is true, sets underline on; otherwise sets underline off.

See also

underline() QFontInfo

setVariableAxis(tag, value)

Parameters:

• tag – Tag

• value – float

Applies a value to the variable axis corresponding to tag.

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.

QFont font;
font.setVariableAxis("wght", (QFont::Normal + QFont::Bold) / 2.0f);

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 ( Thin to 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 Tag (sequence of four latin-1 characters.)

By default, no variable axes are set.

Note

On Windows, variable axes are not supported if the optional GDI font backend is in use.

See also

unsetVariableAxis

setWeight(weight)

Parameters:

weight – Weight

Sets the weight of the font to weight, using the scale defined by Weight enumeration.

Note

If styleName() is set, this value may be ignored for font selection.

See also

weight() QFontInfo

setWordSpacing(spacing)

Parameters:

spacing – float

Sets the word spacing for the font to spacing.

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.

Word spacing will not apply to writing systems, where indiviaul words are not separated by white space.

See also

wordSpacing() setLetterSpacing()

stretch()

Return type:

int

Returns the stretch factor for the font.

See also

setStretch()

strikeOut()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if strikeout has been set; otherwise returns false.

See also

setStrikeOut()

style()

Return type:

Style

Returns the style of the font.

See also

setStyle()

styleHint()

Return type:

StyleHint

Returns the StyleHint .

The style hint affects the font matching algorithm . See StyleHint for the list of available hints.

See also

setStyleHint() StyleStrategy styleHint()

styleName()

Return type:

str

Returns the requested font style name. This can be used to match the font with irregular styles (that can’t be normalized in other style properties).

See also

setStyleName() setFamily() setStyle()

styleStrategy()

Return type:

StyleStrategy

Returns the StyleStrategy .

The style strategy affects the font matching algorithm. See StyleStrategy for the list of available strategies.

See also

setStyleStrategy() setStyleHint() StyleHint

static substitute(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – str

Return type:

str

Returns the first family name to be used whenever familyName is specified. The lookup is case insensitive.

If there is no substitution for familyName, familyName is returned.

To obtain a list of substitutions use substitutes() .

See also

setFamily() insertSubstitutions() insertSubstitution() removeSubstitutions()

static substitutes(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – str

Return type:

list of strings

Returns a list of family names to be used whenever familyName is specified. The lookup is case insensitive.

If there is no substitution for familyName, an empty list is returned.

See also

substitute() insertSubstitutions() insertSubstitution() removeSubstitutions()

static substitutions()

Return type:

list of strings

Returns a sorted list of substituted family names.

See also

insertSubstitution() removeSubstitutions() substitute()

swap(other)

Parameters:

other – QFont

Swaps this font instance with other. This function is very fast and never fails.

toString()

Return type:

str

Returns a description of the font. The description is a comma-separated list of the attributes, perfectly suited for use in QSettings, and consists of the following:

• Font family

• Point size

• Pixel size

• Style hint

• Font weight

• Font style

• Underline

• Strike out

• Fixed pitch

• Always 0

• Capitalization

• Letter spacing

• Word spacing

• Stretch

• Style strategy

• Font style (omitted when unavailable)

See also

fromString()

underline()

Return type:

bool

Returns true if underline has been set; otherwise returns false.

See also

setUnderline()

unsetFeature(tag)

Parameters:

tag – Tag

This is an overloaded function.

Unsets the tag from the map of explicitly enabled/disabled features.

Note

Even if the feature has not previously been added, this will mark the font features map as modified in this QFont , so that it will take precedence when resolving against other fonts.

Unsetting an existing feature on the QFont reverts behavior to the default.

See setFeature() for more details on font features.

See also

Tag clearFeatures() setFeature() featureTags() featureValue()

unsetVariableAxis(tag)

Parameters:

tag – Tag

Unsets a previously set variable axis value given by tag.

Note

If no value has previously been given for this tag, the QFont will still consider its variable axes as set when resolving against other QFont values.

See also

setVariableAxis

variableAxisTags()

Return type:

.list of QFont.Tag

Returns a list of tags for all variable axes currently set on this QFont .

See setVariableAxis() for more details on variable axes.

See also

Tag setVariableAxis() unsetVariableAxis() isVariableAxisSet() clearVariableAxes()

variableAxisValue(tag)

Parameters:

tag – Tag

Return type:

float

Returns the value set for a specific variable axis tag. If the tag has not been set, 0.0 will be returned instead.

See setVariableAxis() for more details on variable axes.

See also

Tag setVariableAxis() unsetVariableAxis() isVariableAxisSet() clearVariableAxes()

weight()

Return type:

Weight

Returns the weight of the font, using the same scale as the Weight enumeration.

See also

setWeight() Weight QFontInfo

wordSpacing()

Return type:

float

Returns the word spacing for the font.

See also

setWordSpacing() setLetterSpacing()