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Asked: 2026-06-11T20:24:06+00:00

I have a font family popup button which lets the user select a font.

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I have a font family popup button which lets the user select a font. I also have corresponding font face popup button and a font size combo button in my UI. When a user changes the font family, I want to update the font face popup button’s menu with the supported faces/traits for that font family. Could someone please let me know how this is done.

TextEdit seems to do it and I could not figure out how. I have attached a screenshot of the textedit toolbar font popups. I want to mimic these controls in my app.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use -[[NSFontManager sharedFontManager] availableMembersOfFontFamily:] to get an array of font descriptions (not instances of NSFont) in the specified font family. If you have a font already and want its font family, use -[NSFont fontFamily].

    For the specific format of the returned array, see the documentation for NSFontManager.

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