There is a way of getting external fonts into Tkinter [Windows]

(on Windows, at least)

The key piece of code to make this work is the following function:

from ctypes import windll, byref, create_unicode_buffer, create_string_bufferFR_PRIVATE  = 0x10FR_NOT_ENUM = 0x20def loadfont(fontpath, private=True, enumerable=False):    '''    Makes fonts located in file `fontpath` available to the font system.    `private`     if True, other processes cannot see this font, and this                   font will be unloaded when the process dies    `enumerable`  if True, this font will appear when enumerating fonts    See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183327(VS.85).aspx    '''    # This function was taken from    # https://github.com/ifwe/digsby/blob/f5fe00244744aa131e07f09348d10563f3d8fa99/digsby/src/gui/native/win/winfonts.py#L15    # This function is written for Python 2.x. For 3.x, you    # have to convert the isinstance checks to bytes and str    if isinstance(fontpath, str):        pathbuf = create_string_buffer(fontpath)        AddFontResourceEx = windll.gdi32.AddFontResourceExA    elif isinstance(fontpath, unicode):        pathbuf = create_unicode_buffer(fontpath)        AddFontResourceEx = windll.gdi32.AddFontResourceExW    else:        raise TypeError('fontpath must be of type str or unicode')    flags = (FR_PRIVATE if private else 0) | (FR_NOT_ENUM if not enumerable else 0)    numFontsAdded = AddFontResourceEx(byref(pathbuf), flags, 0)    return bool(numFontsAdded)

After you call loadfont with the path to your font file (which can be any of .fon, .fnt, .ttf, .ttc, .fot, .otf, .mmm, .pfb, or .pfm), you can load the font like any other installed font tkFont.Font(family=XXX, ...). and use it anywhere you like. [See MSDN for more info]

The biggest caveat here is that the family name of the font won't necessarily be the name of the file; it's embedded in the font data. Instead of trying to parse out the name, it would probably be easier to just look it up in a font browser GUI and hardcode into your application. edit: or, per patthoyt's comment below, look it up in tkFont.families() (as the last item, or, more robustly, by comparing the list of families before and after loading the font).

I found this function in digsby (license); there's an unloadfont function defined there if you want to remove the font before your program finishes executing. (You can also just rely on the private setting to unload the font when your program ends.)

For anyone interested, here is a discussion on this topic on [TCLCORE] from a few years ago. Some more background: fonts on MSDN

this worked for me on windows but doesn't seem to work on linux:

import pyglet,tkinterpyglet.font.add_file('file.ttf')root = tkinter.Tk()MyLabel = tkinter.Label(root,text="test",font=('font name',25))MyLabel.pack()root.mainloop()

There is no way to load an external font file into Tkinter without resorting to platform-specific hacks. There's nothing built-in to Tkinter to support it.