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JV Lobo
JV Lobo

Reputation: 6316

Get font family name from a TTF file

I'm working with some TTF files in PHP. I'm using this to get some info out of those files: https://github.com/PhenX/php-font-lib

I was wondering if there is any way to get the font family name, by using that library or any other, because I haven't found much info about it.

As an example, let's say I have this two fonts TTF files: Roboto Light and Roboto Bold. What I want is to get "Roboto" which would be the family name of those fonts.

Cheers!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2700

Answers (1)

Ivan Kalita
Ivan Kalita

Reputation: 2287

There is a method named \FontLib\Font::getFontName in php-font-lib that returns font family name. 

$font = \FontLib\Font::load('./fonts/OpenSans-Bold.ttf');
$font->parse();
echo $font->getFontName();
// prints: Open Sans

EDIT

TTF file stores font family name inside the name table at the ID 1 (as described here). FontLib parses this table and returns you this value when you call getFontName() method. In your case your ttf file contains Roboto Light string in Font Family Name row. I suggest you to either use this value or strip the additional font characteristics from font name.

Upvotes: 0

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