how to get the list of the available fonts on Tkinter?

Question

how do I get a list of the names of the available font in Tkinter?

The only fonts that I tried and worked were 'Courier' and 'Helvetica', and I tried using other fonts but it returned the same default fonts.

# this works
button = tk.Button(self.subframe, text="quit", command=master.destroy,
                        highlightbackground='black', font='Helvectica 18')

# this does not work (the text remains the font)
button = tk.Button(self.subframe, text="quit", command=master.destroy,
                        highlightbackground='black', font='Roboto 18')

(font used in the second example)

so I don't know which fonts are available or not, and it would be helpful if I can get a list of the fonts.

Does this answer your question?: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39614027/list-available-font-families-in-tkinter/47415907 — Jacob Lee, Mar 20 '21 at 04:41

Bhargav Akhani · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-20T18:01:24.540

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You can do like this

from tkinter import Tk, font
root = Tk()
print(font.families())

edited Mar 20 '21 at 18:01

answered Mar 20 '21 at 04:39

Bhargav Akhani

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I tried but it doesnt return anything in the terminal and a blank frame? – coder_not_found Mar 20 '21 at 04:44
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@coder_not_found: do `print(font.families())`. – Bryan Oakley Mar 20 '21 at 14:45

how to get the list of the available fonts on Tkinter?

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