C# get font style from .ttf

Question

I write at the moment a programm that search all .ttf file's from the C:\\Windows\\WinSxS dictonary and copy them to another dictonary (I think I dont have to post some code here, because its working well).

Now the problem. As example the font arial is saved with the name arial.ttf , but this file exists more than 1 time with the same name. Now I found this link here: get font name of ttf file , but the output name is still the same (always arial ). I think the difference between these file is the fontstyle (italic, bold, ...), but how can I get the fontstyle of each *.ttf file?

Answer 1

You need a reference to PresentationCore. With that you can use GlyphTypeface to check for Style and Weight: Example:

using System.Windows.Media;

GlyphTypeface ttf = new GlyphTypeface(new Uri(@"C:\Windows\Fonts\calibrii.ttf"));
Debug.Print(ttf.Style.ToString()); //=Italic or Normal
Debug.Print(ttf.Weight.ToString()); //=Bold or Normal

Will not work with Postscript OTF though.

Edit: Credits to C# lib for processing font files - TTF (TrueType), others