find_font(9)

💅 find_font — bestie, let's go find a font

okay so real talk, this is the find_font(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's a little baby page but she's iconic. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

find_font — find a font. that's it. that's the vibe. literally just. finding a font. 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

const struct font_desc * find_font (const char *name );

like, you hand her a name and she hands you back a const struct font_desc *. main character energy fr fr.

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• name — the string name of a font, bestie. that's the thing you're looking for. the font's literal name, as a string. no cap. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what she does is: she finds a specified font with the string name name. that's the whole gig. you give her name, she goes and gets the font. queen behavior 👑

and if there's no font found? she returns NULL. no font, no pointer, no drama. 💀

but if she does find it, you get a pointer to the specified font. slay. 🫶

lowkey important: NULL means "not found". do NOT go dereferencing that. we've talked about this. 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./lib/fonts/fonts.c
• font_data_import(9)
• font_data_get(9)
• font_data_put(9)
• font_data_size(9)
• font_data_glyph_buf(9)
• font_data_is_equal(9)
• font_data_export(9)
• get_default_font(9)

iykyk — go read those next, they're the whole friend group 🌈⭐

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that's the page, bestie!! short and sweet and fully ate 💅

this little gem lives in ./lib/fonts, and the version we're looking at is dated October 2026 (yes, the future, she's ahead of her time 🦋). the manual name is find_font(9) in case you forgot already — love u, go find some fonts, mwah 🎀✨