FcFontMatch(3)

💖 FcFontMatch — best font bestie 💖

okay so welcome to the FcFontMatch(3) page, bestie. this is where fontconfig finds your font match, and yes it’s giving main character energy ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

FcFontMatch — Return best font. no cap, that’s literally the job 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcPattern * FcFontMatch (FcConfig *config, FcPattern *p, FcResult *result);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So FcFontMatch finds the font in sets that most closely matches pattern and returns the result of FcFontRenderPrepare for that font and the pattern you provided. it’s literally matchmaking but for fonts 🫶

⚠️ bestie, listen: this function should be called only after FcConfigSubstitute and FcDefaultSubstitute have been called for p; otherwise the results will not be correct. periodt. no shortcuts 🙈

If config is NULL, the current configuration is used. easy peasy 🌈

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kisses and font vibes 💋 this page is from Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025 — mwah 💖