### Struct

# Pango FontDescription

#### Description [src]

    struct PangoFontDescription {
      /* No available fields */
    }

A `PangoFontDescription` describes a font in an implementation-independent manner.

`PangoFontDescription` structures are used both to list what fonts are available on the system and also for specifying the characteristics of a font to load.

#### Constructors

###### pango_font_description_new

Creates a new font description structure with all fields unset.

#### Functions

###### pango_font_description_from_string

Creates a new font description from a string representation.

#### Instance methods

###### pango_font_description_better_match

Determines if the style attributes of `new_match` are a closer match for `desc` than those of `old_match` are, or if `old_match` is `NULL`, determines if `new_match` is a match at all.

###### pango_font_description_copy

Make a copy of a `PangoFontDescription`.

###### pango_font_description_copy_static

Make a copy of a `PangoFontDescription`, but don’t duplicate allocated fields.

###### pango_font_description_equal

Compares two font descriptions for equality.

###### pango_font_description_free

Frees a font description.

###### pango_font_description_get_family

Gets the family name field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_get_gravity

Gets the gravity field of a font description.

since: 1.16

###### pango_font_description_get_set_fields

Determines which fields in a font description have been set.

###### pango_font_description_get_size

Gets the size field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_get_size_is_absolute

Determines whether the size of the font is in points (not absolute) or device units (absolute).

since: 1.8

###### pango_font_description_get_stretch

Gets the stretch field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_get_style

Gets the style field of a `PangoFontDescription`.

###### pango_font_description_get_variant

Gets the variant field of a `PangoFontDescription`.

###### pango_font_description_get_variations

Gets the variations field of a font description.

since: 1.42

###### pango_font_description_get_weight

Gets the weight field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_hash

Computes a hash of a `PangoFontDescription` structure.

###### pango_font_description_merge

Merges the fields that are set in `desc_to_merge` into the fields in `desc`.

###### pango_font_description_merge_static

Merges the fields that are set in `desc_to_merge` into the fields in `desc`, without copying allocated fields.

###### pango_font_description_set_absolute_size

Sets the size field of a font description, in device units.

since: 1.8

###### pango_font_description_set_family

Sets the family name field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_set_family_static

Sets the family name field of a font description, without copying the string.

###### pango_font_description_set_gravity

Sets the gravity field of a font description.

since: 1.16

###### pango_font_description_set_size

Sets the size field of a font description in fractional points.

###### pango_font_description_set_stretch

Sets the stretch field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_set_style

Sets the style field of a `PangoFontDescription`.

###### pango_font_description_set_variant

Sets the variant field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_set_variations

Sets the variations field of a font description.

since: 1.42

###### pango_font_description_set_variations_static

Sets the variations field of a font description.

since: 1.42

###### pango_font_description_set_weight

Sets the weight field of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_to_filename

Creates a filename representation of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_to_string

Creates a string representation of a font description.

###### pango_font_description_unset_fields

Unsets some of the fields in a `PangoFontDescription`.