hollow.fonts

June 4, 2026 · View on GitHub

Discover installed fonts and pick the first available family from a preference list.

For the LuaLS schema see types/hollow.lua (HollowFontsNamespace, HollowFontInfo).

Functions

hollow.fonts.list()                              -- all families
hollow.fonts.find(query)                         -- filtered by substring
hollow.fonts.has(family, style?)                 -- boolean
hollow.fonts.pick(candidates, style?)            -- first available or nil

Examples

List everything:

for _, f in ipairs(hollow.fonts.list()) do
  print(f.family, table.concat(f.styles, ", "))
end

Filter by name:

for _, f in ipairs(hollow.fonts.find("mono")) do
  print(f.family)
end

Check a specific family:

if hollow.fonts.has("Cascadia Mono", "Bold") then
  -- ...
end

Pick the first available from a list:

local preferred = hollow.fonts.pick({
  "Cascadia Mono",
  "Consolas",
  "DejaVu Sans Mono",
})

if preferred then
  hollow.config.set({ fonts = { family = preferred } })
end

pick returns the first family that exists on the host, or nil if none match.

CLI equivalent

hollow.exe exposes the same inventory:

hollow.exe --list-fonts
hollow.exe --match-font mono
hollow.exe --list-fonts --json

See also