Check if a font is Serif / SansSerif

Pickaboo

Given a font , is there a way to check if the font is Serif / SansSerif ? I tried using QFont::StyleHint , but I am not sure how that could be used since it is set to AnyStyle by default.

ABDU

You can do it like this:

QFont font("SansSerif");
if (font.family() == "SansSerif") {
    // Do something...
}

raven-worx

@Pickaboo
how did you use the stylehint?
Did you use QFontInfo on an already selected QFont and then check the style hint?

Pickaboo

Yes , I got info on an already existing QFont and then got style hint from info.styleHint() and then a check
bool isSansSerif = info.styleHint() & QFont::SansSerif

Robert Hairgrove

I'm a little late to this thread, but I need to do this, too, and I haven't found a way yet.

Just a note that according to the help documents, QFontInfo only returns the style hint that was set in its font which was used to create it:

QFont::StyleHint QFontInfo::styleHint() const
...etc. ...
"Currently only returns the style hint set in QFont."

So it is not really necessary to create a QFontInfo object from the font since this function seems to be just as useless as QFont::styleHint()is (to me, at any rate).

I expect that there might be a way to get this information, at least from TrueType or OpenType fonts, by examining the font file itself. However, it looks like there is no API exposed by Qt to do this through the existing interfaces.