Customize Your Fonts

Just curious if the fonts library changes over time? For example, your Karla font isn't an option among the 158 font choices that show up for me.

This may be peculiar to my setup, but when I run the fonts command I see only 150 fonts, even though my system actually has quite a few more. (Perhaps they're not showing up because when I ran loadfonts I got this error message LOTS of times: "string 4 is invalid in this localeinput".) I tried using Bauhaus 93, which was not listed by the fonts command, and Bauhaus was actually applied to my graph. So, fonts are available to R that don't show up when running the fonts command.

Hello!

When I try to import "Karla" with the following code: font_import(pattern = "Karla") I get the following error message: Scanning ttf files in C:\Windows\Fonts ... Extracting .afm files from .ttf files... Error in data.frame(fontfile = ttfiles, FontName = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) : arguments imply differing number of rows: 0, 1

I have already imported other fonts and have verified that 187 are available, but Karla is not among them.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

I've tried three things and only Heiss' advice to specifically load Comic Sans works (which is not super helpful since i'll never use that font). I'm on Windows.

1. I installed extrafont. When I run font_import() I get the following in the Console: > font_import() Importing fonts may take a few minutes, depending on the number of fonts and the speed of the system. Continue? [y/n] y Scanning ttf files in C:\windows\Fonts ... Extracting .afm files from .ttf files... C:\Windows\Fonts\AGENCYB.TTF : No FontName. Skipping. C:\Windows\Fonts\AGENCYR.TTF : No FontName. Skipping. C:\Windows\Fonts\ALGER.TTF : No FontName. Skipping. C:\Windows\Fonts\ANTQUAB.TTF : No FontName. Skipping. .... C:\Windows\Fonts\WINGDNG3.TTF : No FontName. Skipping. C:\Windows\Fonts\ZWAdobeF.TTF : No FontName. Skipping. Found FontName for 0 fonts. Scanning afm files in C:/Users/mmakel1/OneDrive - Johns Hopkins/Documents/R/win-library/4.1/extrafontdb/metrics There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)"

2. When I run windowsFonts() > windowsFonts() $serif [1] "TT Times New Roman" $sans [1] "TT Arial" $mono [1] "TT Courier New" >

3. following Andrew Heiss' blog, when i run capabilities(), I do get TRUE for Cairo, but don't see it in my list of fonts.

4. When I run, [from Heiss blog] windowsFonts(Comic Sans MS = windowsFont("Comic Sans MS") That increases my fonts to 4. (but not super helpful since I will never use Comic Sans). It's fine if I have to load them one at a time, but I don't know the official font names in Windows. ...The above errors aren't as the closest to Comic Sans MS are: C:\Windows\Fonts\comic.ttf : No FontName. Skipping. C:\Windows\Fonts\comicbd.ttf : No FontName. Skipping. C:\Windows\Fonts\comici.ttf : No FontName. Skipping.

I couldn't make it work. I installed the package, ran font import (I get a No Font Name error) and then with fonts I get a "NULL".

Hello,

I am not able to load any fonts into R. I am using Windows. I tried using the code that was submitted below "library(extrafont) library(remotes) remotes::install_version(“Rttf2pt1”, version = “1.3.8”) extrafont::font_import()", but that did not work for me.

Also, I'm not certain that I am loading the fonts correctly in showtext. When I followed the directions listed on https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/showtext/vignettes/introduction.html, I got the following error: > showtext::font_add_google Error: 'font_add_google' is not an exported object from 'namespace:showtext'

I'm getting an unused argument error on (base_family = "Ariel"), regardless of what font family I try. I had no problem viewing my list of available fonts, but none of them want to work with theme_minimal.