Select font typeface

[jorainer]

Would be nice if it was not only possible to select the font family (p_family) but also the font typeface (e.g. Lt, Rg) etc. or directly select the font e.g. p_font = "Aller_Lt".

[GuangchuangYu]

now p_family supports passing value like Aller_Rg, Aller_Lt etc.

I would like to keep using p_family instead of p_font and the p_family is to specific family passing to geom_text or annotate("text",...) and it work exactly the same way in addition of internally support Aller.

If user want to use specific fonts (e.g. google font), they can use showtext to load the font manually and also pass to the p_family parameter.

I like this way to keep minimal and consistent parameters without scaring people.

[henningsway]

How can I easily see, which fonts are available? Are fonts from the extrafont-package supposed to work?
(showtext seems to be working well.)

[GuangchuangYu]

hexSticker internally use showtext and current implementation doesn't support extrafont.