FontFamily

Object Hierarchy:

public class FontFamily : Object

Namespace: Pango

Package: pango

public unowned string get_name ()
Gets the name of the family. The name is unique among all fonts for the font backend and can be used in a FontDescription to specify that a face from this family is desired.
public bool is_monospace ()
A monospace font is a font designed for text display where the the characters form a regular grid. For Western languages this would mean that the advance width of all characters are the same, but this categorization also includes Asian fonts which include double-width characters: characters that occupy two grid cells. iswide returns a result that indicates whether a character is typically double-width in a monospace font.
public void list_faces (out FontFace[] faces)
Lists the different font faces that make up family. The faces in a family share a common design, but differ in slant, weight, width and other aspects.