FcFontRenderPrepare(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

FcFontRenderPrepare — Prepare pattern for loading font file

Okay bestie, welcome to the FcFontRenderPrepare(3) page. This is the little function that gets a pattern ready for loading a font file. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcPattern * FcFontRenderPrepare (FcConfig *config, FcPattern *pat, FcPattern *font);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's the tea: FcFontRenderPrepare creates a brand-new pattern. That new pattern is made from three things, and yes bestie, all three matter:

1. elements of font that do not appear in pat 🦋
2. elements of pat that do not appear in font 🌸
3. the best matching value from pat for elements that appear in both 🔥

Then the result is passed to FcConfigSubstituteWithPat with kind set to FcMatchFont, and after that it's returned. That's the whole vibe. ✨

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Mwah 💋 — source/version: Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025. Bye bestie! 🫶