Get font width

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# imagefontwidth

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

imagefontwidth — Get font width

### Description

int imagefontwidth ( int `$font` )

Returns the pixel width of a character in font.

### Parameters

`font`

  Can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for built-in fonts in latin2 encoding (where higher numbers corresponding to larger fonts) or any of your own font identifiers registered with imageloadfont().

### Return Values

Returns the pixel width of the font.

### Examples

Example #1 Using imagefontwidth() on built-in fonts

`<?php
echo 'Font width: ' . imagefontwidth(4);
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

    Font width: 8

Example #2 Using imagefontwidth() together with imageloadfont()

`<?php
// Load a .gdf font
$font = imageloadfont('anonymous.gdf');
echo 'Font width: ' . imagefontwidth($font);
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

    Font width: 23

### See Also

- imagefontheight() - Get font height
- imageloadfont() - Load a new font

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