IDWriteFontCollection interface (dwrite.h)

An object that encapsulates a set of fonts, such as the set of fonts installed on the system, or the set of fonts in a particular directory. The font collection API can be used to discover what font families and fonts are available, and to obtain some metadata about the fonts.

Inheritance

The IDWriteFontCollection interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IDWriteFontCollection also has these types of members:

Methods

The IDWriteFontCollection interface has these methods.

IDWriteFontCollection::FindFamilyName Finds the font family with the specified family name.
IDWriteFontCollection::GetFontFamily Creates a font family object given a zero-based font family index.
IDWriteFontCollection::GetFontFamilyCount Gets the number of font families in the collection.
IDWriteFontCollection::GetFontFromFontFace Gets the font object that corresponds to the same physical font as the specified font face object. The specified physical font must belong to the font collection.

Remarks

The IDWriteFactory::GetSystemFontCollection method will give you an IDWriteFontCollection object, which encapsulates the set of fonts installed on the system, as shown in the following code example.

IDWriteFontCollection* pFontCollection = NULL;

// Get the system font collection.
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
    hr = pDWriteFactory->GetSystemFontCollection(&pFontCollection);
}

IDWriteTextFormat and IDWriteTextLayout both have a GetFontCollection method that returns the font collection being used by the object. These interfaces use the system font collection by default, but can use a custom font collection instead.

To determine what fonts are available on the system, get a reference to the system font collection. You can then use the IDWriteFontCollection::GetFontFamilyCount method to determine the number of fonts and loop through the list. The following example enumerates the fonts in the system font collection, and prints the font family names to the console.

#include <dwrite.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <new>

// SafeRelease inline function.
template <class T> inline void SafeRelease(T **ppT)
{
    if (*ppT)
    {
        (*ppT)->Release();
        *ppT = NULL;
    }
}

void wmain()
{
    IDWriteFactory* pDWriteFactory = NULL;

    HRESULT hr = DWriteCreateFactory(
            DWRITE_FACTORY_TYPE_SHARED,
            __uuidof(IDWriteFactory),
            reinterpret_cast<IUnknown**>(&pDWriteFactory)
            );

    IDWriteFontCollection* pFontCollection = NULL;

    // Get the system font collection.
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        hr = pDWriteFactory->GetSystemFontCollection(&pFontCollection);
    }

    UINT32 familyCount = 0;

    // Get the number of font families in the collection.
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        familyCount = pFontCollection->GetFontFamilyCount();
    }

    for (UINT32 i = 0; i < familyCount; ++i)
    {
        IDWriteFontFamily* pFontFamily = NULL;

        // Get the font family.
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            hr = pFontCollection->GetFontFamily(i, &pFontFamily);
        }

        IDWriteLocalizedStrings* pFamilyNames = NULL;
        
        // Get a list of localized strings for the family name.
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            hr = pFontFamily->GetFamilyNames(&pFamilyNames);
        }

        UINT32 index = 0;
        BOOL exists = false;
        
        wchar_t localeName[LOCALE_NAME_MAX_LENGTH];

        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            // Get the default locale for this user.
            int defaultLocaleSuccess = GetUserDefaultLocaleName(localeName, LOCALE_NAME_MAX_LENGTH);

            // If the default locale is returned, find that locale name, otherwise use "en-us".
            if (defaultLocaleSuccess)
            {
                hr = pFamilyNames->FindLocaleName(localeName, &index, &exists);
            }
            if (SUCCEEDED(hr) && !exists) // if the above find did not find a match, retry with US English
            {
                hr = pFamilyNames->FindLocaleName(L"en-us", &index, &exists);
            }
        }
        
        // If the specified locale doesn't exist, select the first on the list.
        if (!exists)
            index = 0;

        UINT32 length = 0;

        // Get the string length.
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            hr = pFamilyNames->GetStringLength(index, &length);
        }

        // Allocate a string big enough to hold the name.
        wchar_t* name = new (std::nothrow) wchar_t[length+1];
        if (name == NULL)
        {
            hr = E_OUTOFMEMORY;
        }

        // Get the family name.
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            hr = pFamilyNames->GetString(index, name, length+1);
        }
        if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        {
            // Print out the family name.
            wprintf(L"%s\n", name);
        }

        SafeRelease(&pFontFamily);
        SafeRelease(&pFamilyNames);

        delete [] name;
    }

    SafeRelease(&pFontCollection);
    SafeRelease(&pDWriteFactory);
}

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7, Windows Vista with SP2 and Platform Update for Windows Vista [desktop apps | UWP apps]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 with SP2 and Platform Update for Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps | UWP apps]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	dwrite.h