Python cffi bridge to fontconfig's FcFontList/FcFontMatch

Note: this is a plublished fork of tarruda python-fclist.

Useful for python programs that need to query information about fonts installed in the system(use this instead of parsing fc-list output). Requires the fontconfig shared library installed in a directory that the cffi module can find.

Installing

pip install fclist-cffi

Usage

from fclist import fclist, fcmatch

# Print the family, style and file path of monospace/truetype fonts
for font in fclist(spacing='mono', fontformat='TrueType'):
    print font.family, font.style, font.file

# Print the system's default monospace font
print fcmatch('monospace')

fclist can receive any keyword arguments that can be passed to the fc-list command, and the returned font objects have most attributes defined by fontconfig.h.

fcmatch receives the same pattern that is normally passed to fc-match, but it doesn't support the --all/--sort options(only returns a single font object).

Tests

Tests are written to use pytest.