Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints, Second Edition - Second Edition

Building a font selector

Now that we have seen the basic features that are available in Tkinter's font module, let's implement a font selector like the one shown in the following screenshot:

The key to building the font selector shown in the preceding screenshot is to fetch a list of all the fonts installed on a system. A call to the families() method from the font module fetches a tuple of all the fonts available on a system. Accordingly, when you run the following code, a tuple of all the fonts available on the system gets printed (see the 10.09_all_fonts_on_a_system.py code):

from tkinter import Tk, fontroot = Tk()all_fonts = font.families() ...