coldtype.text.reader.StyledString

class StyledString(text: str, style: coldtype.text.reader.Style)

Lowest-level vectorized typesetting class

fit(width)

Use various methods (tracking, wdth axis, etc. — properties specified in the Style object) to fit a piece of text horizontally to a given width (warning: not very fast)

pen(frame=True) → coldtype.pens.datpen.DATPen

Vectorize all text into single DATPen

pens(frame=True) → coldtype.pens.datpen.DATPens

Vectorize text into a DATPens, such that each glyph (or ligature) is represented by a single DATPen (or a DATPens in the case of a color font, which will then nest a DATPen for each layer of that color glyph)