How to use system default font

[Rratic]

I'm using Bevy UI and found it annoying to attach font files. While there's loads of fonts embedded in a common operating system.

#11839 shows how to set a font as default font from a specific path. Though I can try to fill in the path myself, there seems no method built-in to do it cross-platform. It would be even better if I can name it.

Moreover, I would like it to work as a fall-back, which is used when the font I specified does not exist, as it works on web (people simply write font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif and never care if none of these fonts exist).

And I want it possible to specify the font-weight with that feature, as it works on web (font-weight: 700; font-stretch: 100%; selecting the font face).

It seems there doesn't a simple way to do that with the source code I read or cargo searched. What's the current solution to this?

[rparrett]

Please see the following issue.

#1325

There are a couple PRs attempting to add this functionality now that we've switched to cosmic-text.

#16365
#14150

[Rratic]

Sorry forgot to check issues and only tried to look up discussions and common documents.

I'll test later if it meets my demand and then mark as answer.

[Rratic]

It's terribly complicated to use I think. It confuses me that bevy_text::font::Font and cosmic-text::font::Font are two types and I don't see how I can put FontSystem into use. And the font-kit crate is still different. I guess I shall wait until all the glue code are merged and an API pops up.