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ID		Creation date	March 28, 2008
Platform	S60 2nd Edition, S60 3rd Edition	Tested on devices	S60 3rd Edition FP1 SDK
Category	Python	Subcategory	UI

Keywords (APIs, classes, methods, functions): fonts

Introduction

This article provides information about the types of fonts used in PyS60.

Code Snippet

import appuifw
 
print appuifw.available_fonts() #To display all available fonts, use this commands

This displays "Nokia Hindi S60", "Nokia Hindi TitleSmBd S6", "Series 60 ZDigi" as shown in the following figure.

The size and style of a font can be changed by the following code snippet and screenshot.

fnt=appuifw.Text()
fnt.font=u"Nokia Hindi S6016b" # sets font to Nokia Hindi S60 16 bold

The fonts can also have attributes like bold, italics and underlined. For example, setting bold fonts is shown in screenshot.

On a canvas, fonts are bit different. If you use their names as given by available_fonts(), these names must be in unicode format. More common names for the most used fonts are:

font='normal' # displays large text
font='title' # displays very large text
font='annotation' #or 'legend' or 'symbol'  displays small text
font='dense' # displays slightly thinner text

If the font is not specified in canvas.text, the default font is used, which displays very small text.

Example:

canvas.text((20,20), u"Text here", font='normal')
 
#or
 
canvas.text((20,20), u"Text here", font=u"Nokia Hindi S6016b")