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PyQt5 font dialog

PyQt5 comes with a font dialog that you may have seen in a text editor. To open this dialog import QFontDialog call:

QFontDialog.getFont()

pyqt-font-dialog Font Dialog using PyQt5

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PyQt5 font dialog The example below opens a font dialog on a button event, the selected font (font family including size) will be returned as a string.

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QPushButton, QFontDialog
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
from PyQt5.QtCore import pyqtSlot

class App(QWidget):

def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.title = 'PyQt5 font dialog - pythonspot.com' self.left = 10 self.top = 10 self.width = 320 self.height = 200 self.initUI() def initUI(self): self.setWindowTitle(self.title) self.setGeometry(self.left, self.top, self.width, self.height) button = QPushButton('Open PyQt5 Font Dialog', self) button.setToolTip('font dialog') button.move(50,50) button.clicked.connect(self.on_click) self.show() @pyqtSlot() def on_click(self): print('PyQt5 button click') openFontDialog(self) def openFontDialog(self): font, ok = QFontDialog.getFont() if ok: print(font.toString()) if __name__ == '__main__': app = QApplication(sys.argv) ex = App() sys.exit(app.exec_())

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