Quoting "rmagick / gmail.com" <rmagick / gmail.com>:

> Can somebody enlighten me about where to start? Is there an
> existing library I can leverage? I found fontconfig
> (www.fontconfig.org) but I'm not sure that's right.

Fontconfig is about the closest you can come to a standard for font
configuration on *nix right now.  Which is to say: not very, but
it's probably the best you can do.

It should at least work anywhere that's got a modern Gtk.

-mental