The Oracle Solaris desktop environment uses the fontconfig library for configuring and customizing font access. fontconfig maintains a list of all fonts available on the system, using automatic discovery based on the configuration in fonts.conf(4) file. When an application is searching for a specific font by name, and optionally other attributes such as size, font-weight, or language, fontconfig provides the application with the specific font path. fontconfig does not lay out or render the fonts into text.