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Preview a font by ensuring it's installed and drawing a sample string

Source: R/preview_font.R
preview_font.Rd

Ensure the requested font is installed via add_font() and draw a brief sample using showtext for proper font rendering.

Usage

preview_font(
  name,
  provider = "bunny",
  family = NULL,
  sample = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
  size = 28,
  subset = "latin",
  regular.wt = 400,
  bold.wt = 700
)

Arguments

name

(character(1)) Font name as used by the provider (e.g. "oswald").

provider

(character(1)) Provider name to use (default: "bunny")

family

(character | NULL) Optional family name to register the font under (default: NULL)

sample

(character(1)) Sample text to display (default: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")

size

(numeric(1)) Font size in points for the preview (default: 28)

subset

(character(1)) Glyph subset to request (default: "latin")

regular.wt

(integer(1)) Regular weight to display (default: 400)

bold.wt

(integer(1)) Bold weight to display (default: 700)

Value

(list) Invisibly returns the list of paths produced by add_font().