Default fixed-width font in Qt

Question

Is there a cross-platform way of getting the user's preferred fixed-width and proportional fonts in Qt?

For example, in Cocoa, there is

NSFont *proportional = [NSFont userFontOfSize:12.0f];
NSFont *fixed_width = [NSFont userFixedPitchFontOfSize:12.0f];

I would like to find an equivalent in Qt that works in Mac, Linux, and Windows.

Answer 1

Using QFontDatabase's systemFont(..) function, you can retrieve

• the system's default font
• the default fixed font
• the "title" font
• the smallest readable font

Example:

const QFont fixedFont = QFontDatabase::systemFont(QFontDatabase::FixedFont)

Introduced in Qt 5.2