Get a list of all available fonts in PIL

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I'm trying to find out what fonts are available to be used in PIL with the font = ImageFont.load() and/or ImageFont.truetype() function. I want to create a list from which I can sample a random font to be used. I haven't found anything in the documentation so far, unfortunately.

python-imaging-library python-3.x python
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I have so far not found a solution with PIL but matplotlib has a function to get all the available fonts on from the system:

system_fonts = matplotlib.font_manager.findSystemFonts(fontpaths=None, fontext='ttf')

The font can then be loaded using fnt = ImageFont.truetype(font, 60)

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