Where do I find what colors and fonts are available?

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"Hornberger, Chris" wrote:
> 
> >> and font names are available on my system.  I'm using Windows 2000.
> >I'd search for *.ttf (a particular kind of font file), and look at the
> >directories where several of these show up.  This is, of course, a Win2K
> >rather than Python Question.  On my installation, the fonts are in
> >C:\WINNT\Fonts.
> 
> *nods* You mentioned that's a platform issue and not a Python issue. That's key, depending on what he's looking to do.
> 
> If he's looking for platform independence (and who wouldn't be in Python?), whatever GUI manager he's using will probably have the necessary functions/libraries for enumerating the fonts that *it* knows how to deal with, which would be the more accurate way to find fonts... speaking, again, platform-independently.

I didn't mention it in my original post, but I do need platform
independence.  I want to choose fonts and colors that will work with
Windows or linux.  So I need a way of knowing what my options are, i.e.,
what colornames and fonts are available, both on my system and other
peoples systems.  For example, "blue" is always available, but "salmon"
may not be.
"courier" is probably always available, but "Bookman Old Style" may not
be.

At the moment I don't even know what's available on my own system, let
alone other people's, and I have not found this info in any
documentation.

Does Tkinter include its own fonts and colors?  If so, where do I find
their names?  If not, same question anyway.

m

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