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sysfonts (version 0.8.9)

font_paths: Get/Set Font Search Paths

Description

The two versions of this function are equivalent, but the "underscore" naming is preferred.

This function gets/sets the search paths for font files. See font_add() for details about how sysfonts looks for font files. There is also a complete example showing the usage of these functions in the help page of font_add().

Usage

font_paths(new)

font.paths(new)

Value

The updated search paths.

Arguments

new

a character vector indicating the search paths to be prepended. If the argument is missing, the function will return the current search paths.

Author

Yixuan Qiu <https://statr.me/>

Details

Default search paths will be assigned when package is loaded:

  • For Windows, it is %windir%\Fonts, usually expanded into C:\Windows\Fonts

  • For Mac OS, default paths are /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts and their subdirectories

  • For Linux and other Unix-like OS, /usr/share/fonts, /usr/local/share/fonts, ~/.fonts, ~/.local/share/fonts, and their subdirectories