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Get available OpenType features in a font

Source: R/font_features.R
get_font_features.Rd

This is a simply functions that returns the available OpenType feature tags for one or more fonts. See font_feature() for more information on how to use the different feature with a font.

Usage

get_font_features(
  family = "",
  italic = FALSE,
  bold = FALSE,
  path = NULL,
  index = 0
)

Arguments

family

The name of the font families to match

italic

logical indicating the font slant

bold

[Deprecated] Use weight = "bold" instead

path, index

path and index of a font file to circumvent lookup based on family and style

Value

A list with an element for each of the input fonts containing the supported feature tags for that font.

Examples

# Select a random font on the system
sys_fonts <- systemfonts::system_fonts()
random_font <- sys_fonts$family[sample(nrow(sys_fonts), 1)]

# Get the features
get_font_features(random_font)
#> [[1]]
#>  [1] "kern" "aalt" "dnom" "fina" "frac" "hist" "liga" "numr" "ordn" "sups"
#>