2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp b/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp
index 0ce00e43b..bf6516b42 100644
--- a/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp
+++ b/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp
@@ -340,6 +340,18 @@ static char const *weight_to_text(PangoWeight w)
     return "???";
 }
 
+Glib::ustring Layout::getFontFamily(unsigned span_index) const
+{
+    if (span_index < 0 || span_index >= _spans.size())
+        return "";
+
+    if (_spans[span_index].font) {
+        return pango_font_description_get_family(_spans[span_index].font->descr);
+    }
+
+    return "";
+}
+
 Glib::ustring Layout::dumpAsText() const
 {
     Glib::ustring result;
diff --git a/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG.h b/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG.h
index 4406d9f93..f4a09f25b 100644
--- a/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG.h
+++ b/src/libnrtype/Layout-TNG.h
@@ -353,6 +353,9 @@ public:
     void showGlyphs(CairoRenderContext *ctx) const;
 #endif
 
+    /** Returns the font family of the indexed span */
+    Glib::ustring getFontFamily(unsigned span_index) const;
+
     /** debug and unit test method. Creates a textual representation of the
     contents of this object. The output is designed to be both human-readable
     and comprehensible when diffed with a known-good dump. */