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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
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Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

by Bhaskar Chaudhary
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Many Tkinter widgets let you specify custom font specifications either at the time of widget creation, or later by using the configure() option. For most cases, default fonts provide a standard look and feel. However, if you want to change font specifications, Tkinter lets you do so. There is one caveat though.

When you specify your own font, you need to make sure that it looks good on all the platforms where your program is intended to be deployed because a font might look good on a particular platform, but it may look awful on another platform. Unless you know what you are doing, it is always advisable to stick to Tkinter's default fonts.

Most platforms have their own set of standard fonts that are used by the platform's native widgets. ...

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