R: Find a system font by name and style

match_font {systemfonts} | R Documentation

## Find a system font by name and style

### Description

This function locates the font file (and index) best matching a name and optional style (italic/bold). A font file will be returned even if a match isn't found, but it is not necessarily similar to the requested family and it should not be relied on for font substitution. The aliases `"sans"`, `"serif"`, and `"mono"` match to the system default sans-serif, serif, and mono fonts respectively (`""` is equivalent to `"sans"`).

### Usage

    match_font(family, italic = FALSE, bold = FALSE)

### Arguments

`family` | The name of the font family
`italic, bold` | logicals indicating the font style

### Value

A list containing the path locating the font file and the 0-based index of the font in the file.

### Examples

    # Get the system default sans-serif font in italic
    match_font('sans', italic = TRUE)

[Package systemfonts version 1.0.2 Index]