FcConfigAppFontAddDir(3)

💖 FcConfigAppFontAddDir 💖

okay bestie, you're on the FcConfigAppFontAddDir(3) page of the fontconfig manual, and honestly? It's a cute little function with one job: fonts go in, directory gets scanned, application-specific font set gets fed 🍓✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

FcConfigAppFontAddDir — adds fonts from a directory into the font database. iconic behavior, no notes 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcBool FcConfigAppFontAddDir (FcConfig *config, const FcChar8 *dir);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea: FcConfigAppFontAddDir scans the directory you give it in dir for fonts, and it adds each font it finds to the application-specific set of fonts 🎀. Every single one it finds gets added — it's giving collector energy, fr fr.

It returns FcFalse if the fonts cannot be added — the page attributes that to allocation failure, so like, memory said “not today” 😭. Otherwise, it returns FcTrue 💖.

If config is NULL, the current configuration is used. That's it, that's the function, and it ate 👑

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sign-off szn: Fontconfig 2.17.0, 27 June 2025 — mwah, bestie 💋✨