[SOLVED] How do I give moviepy access to custom installed fonts on Windows?

How do I give moviepy access to custom installed fonts on Windows?

I have been looking through the depths of the internet and still cannot find anything. When I execute

print(TextClip.list("font"))

My custom-installed fonts are not available. After some research, I thought it could be possible that it has to do with ImageMagick not recognizing my installed fonts. When I researched that, most documentation is for Mac/Linux because Windows supposedly allows all applications to use installed fonts, so ImageMagick should just recognize it.

Has anyone run into this issue before?

I exptected

clip = TextClip("text", color='black', font='PKMN RBYGSC Regular',
                   fontsize=32, )

to use my installed font "PKMN RBYGSC Regular". I have tried all iterations of the name, such as: 'PKMN-RBYGSC-Regular', 'PKMN_RBYGSC_Regular', r'C:\Windows\Fonts\PKMN_RBYGSC.ttf', etc.

The result was moviepy using the default font. I read that this has to do with ImageMagick

Solution

Yes, you are right. You have to do this with ImageMagicK. On windows, go to ImageMagicK installation folder and find the type-ghostscript.xml file.

Simply add the custom font in the tag. For example, if you want to add Poppins font then you have to use

<type name="Poppins" fullname="Poppins" family="Poppins" style="normal" weight="400" stretch="normal" format="type1" metrics="C:\Users\Downloads\Poppins\Poppins-Regular.ttf" glyphs="C:\Users\Downloads\Poppins\Poppins-Regular.ttf" />

Save this file as administrator.

Then, do this

clip = TextClip("text", color='black', font='Poppins',
                   fontsize=32)