pango.FontFamily an object representing a family of related font faces. pango.FontFamily gobject.GObject list_faces get_name is_monospace +-- gobject.GObject +-- pango.FontFamily The pango.FontFamily object is used to represent a family of related font faces. The faces in a family share a common design, but differ in slant, weight, width and other aspects. A list of pango.FontFamily objects can be retrieved from a pango.Context object using the pango.Context.list_families() method and from a pango.FontMap object using the pango.FontMap.list_families() method. list_faces Returns : a list of pango.FontFace objects. The list_faces() method returns a list of the different pango.FontFace object that make up the font family>. The faces in a family share a common design, but differ in slant, weight, width and other aspects. get_name Returns : the name of the family. The get_name() method returns a string containing the name of the font family. The name is unique among all fonts for the font backend and can be used in a pango.FontDescription to specify that a face from this family is desired. is_monospace Returns : the name of the family. The is_monospace() method returns TRUE if the font family describes a monospace font. A monospace font is a font designed for text display where the the characters form a regular grid. For Western languages this would mean that the advance width of all characters are the same, but this categorization also includes Asian fonts which include double-width characters: characters that occupy two grid cells. The best way to find out the grid-cell size is to call the get_approximate_digit_width() method, since the results of the get_approximate_char_width()