On Sat, May 30, 2015, at 09:42 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
> I’m using -[NSFontManager availableFontNamesWithTraits:] and I want to
> get the names of all of the fonts that have both a regular (plain) and
> bold option.
> 
> I’ve tried various things, but this seems like it should work:
> 
>       NSArray* fonts = [[NSFontManager sharedFontManager] 
> availableFontNamesWithTraits:NSBoldFontMask | NSUnboldFontMask];

Here, you're asking for "all fonts that consider themselves to be both
bold and unbold". This set is going to be empty (unless you have a
particularly broken font installed).

> 
> Except it returns no results. According to the docs if I pass 0 for
> traits, it should return all the plain fonts, and it’s equivalent to
> NSUnboldFontMask | NSUnitalicFontMask. That returns no results.
> 

This is a known bug.

If you want to query for fonts with certain traits, you're much better
off using NSFontDescriptor.

--Kyle Sluder

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