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

To display all available fonts, use these commands:

import appuifw
 
print appuifw.available_fonts()

This displays "Nokia Hindi S60", "Nokia Hindi TitleSmBd S6", "Series 60 ZDigi"

The size and style of a font can be changed.

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

On a canvas, fonts a bit different. If you use their names as given by available_fonts(), these names must be in unicode. 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")