How to Get Available Fonts in Pygame

1. Get Available Fonts With pygame.font.get_fonts()
2. Difference Between SysFont and Font

This short tutorial teaches you to get all available fonts and import them into Pygame.

Get Available Fonts With pygame.font.get_fonts()

To get all available system fonts, call the pygame.font.get_fonts() method of Pygame. This will return an array containing lowercase font names.

This is useful when working with pygame.font.SysFont(), which wants the font name as the first Argument.

Code:

print(pygame.font.get_fonts())

The output could look like this. Of course, this depends on the fonts installed on your device.

Output:

['arial', 'arialblack', 'bahnschrift', ...]

Difference Between SysFont and Font

There are two ways to import fonts in Pygame. Through pygame.font.SysFont and pygame.font.Font.

The difference is that the SysFont class expects a font name, and the Font class expects a path to a font file, for example, a .ttf font. The get_fonts() function is needed for SysFont because it returns the font names.

Complete Code:

# Imports
import sys
import pygame

# Configuration
pygame.init()

print(pygame.font.get_fonts())