Get Available font styles for font family

Question

We use

String fonts[] = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames();

to get a list of available fonts. I want a method which is able to return styles for a particular font. For Eg. Segoe UI is available in following styles : Black, Black Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Light, Regular and so on.

Or is there any alternative to achieve same output ?

Martijn Courteaux Martijn Courteaux · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-13T13:01:39

I think you could try something like this:

public static void main(String[] a)
{
    Set<String> styles = getAvailableStyles("Arial");
    System.out.println(styles);
}

public static Set<String> getAvailableStyles(String name)
{
    Set<String> styles = new HashSet<String>();
    GraphicsEnvironment e = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
    Font[] fonts = e.getAllFonts();
    for (Font f : fonts)
    {
        if (f.getFamily().equals(name))
            styles.add(f.getName());
    }
    return styles;
}

Output:

[Arial-BoldMT, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT]

The problem is that you don't know which one is bold or italic etc, because all the fonts have style "plain". Only using the name works.

Get Available font styles for font family

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