Can the fontFilePath() take fontName as a parameter

[MrBrezina]

It would be convenient if one could call the fontFilePath(fontName) similarly to listFontVariations(). There are situations where I would like to know a path to an installed font, but I do not necessarily want to use it for drawing. Totally, low priority, of course. I can do this for now:

font(fontName)
path = fontFilePath()

[justvanrossum]

Somewhat off topic:

I am personally not convinced listFontVariations() should have gotten that argument in the first place, given the symmetry with FormattedString().listFontVariations(): in the latter case the font argument makes no sense. See also justvanrossum/drawbot-skia#10

Or: perhaps FormattedString should not have gotten methods like listFontVariations() and fontFilePath().

Either way, something's not quite satisfying with these functions/methods as they stand.

[typemytype]

Retrieving info from the a font important and maybe it should be separated from a FormattedString and even from global callbacks

I still like this proposal to collect all (calculated) info of a font in a font info like object

see #257

maybe the filePath and variations settings could be bundled there as well
Im also aware not to reinvent font.info object over again...

[MrBrezina]

Oh yeah, that definitely looks like a more complete solution! Or an independent library, simpler version of fontTools. We have a wrapper like that with a few common queries we tend to have on binary fonts.

What is font.info? Maybe I am missing something basic.

[gferreira]

@MrBrezina font.info

[MrBrezina]

Ah thanks! My understanding is that fontParts is just for UFO (at least atm.) and I am dealing with compiled fonts in this particular case.

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