Fontset variants and styles

These functions return the variants and the styles available for a given fontset.

fontset_variants(fontset)

fontset_styles(fontset, variant)

Arguments

fontset

A string giving the name of a set of fonts (e.g. "Liberation" or"Bitstream Vera"). Use fontset_list() to obtain the list of fontsets registered in your session.

variant

Font variant, as per Fontconfig's nomenclature. Use fontset_variants() to find out which variants are available for a fontset.

Examples

fontset_variants("Liberation")
#> [1] "Sans"  "Mono"  "Serif"
fontset_styles("Bitstream Vera", "Sans Mono")
#> [1] "Roman"        "Oblique"      "Bold"         "Bold Oblique"