PyQt - QFontDialog Widget

Another commonly used dialog, a font selector widget is the visual appearance of QDialog class. Result of this dialog is a Qfont object, which can be consumed by the parent window.

The class contains a static method getFont(). It displays the font selector dialog. setCurrentFont() method sets the default Font of the dialog.

Example

The following example has a button and a label. When the button is clicked, the font dialog pops up. The font chosen by the user (face, style and size) is applied to the text on the label.

The complete code is −

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class fontdialogdemo(QWidget):
   def __init__(self, parent = None):
      super(fontdialogdemo, self).__init__(parent)
		
      layout = QVBoxLayout()
      self.btn = QPushButton("choose font")
      self.btn.clicked.connect(self.getfont)
		
      layout.addWidget(self.btn)
      self.le = QLabel("Hello")
		
      layout.addWidget(self.le)
      self.setLayout(layout)
      self.setWindowTitle("Font Dialog demo")
		
   def getfont(self):
      font, ok = QFontDialog.getFont()
		
      if ok:
         self.le.setFont(font)
			
def main():
   app = QApplication(sys.argv)
   ex = fontdialogdemo()
   ex.show()
   sys.exit(app.exec_())
	
if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

The above code produces the following output −