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The best path forward would be post a working program that illustrates the possible memory leak so that we can run it, reproduce the problem, and offer a solution. We do run a memory leak detector on ImageMagick code but its possible a leak went undetected.

Magick++ has the DrawableFont() method where you can set the family, style, weight, and stretch.

In the image class you can use a font filename to identify a particular font file (e.g. arial.ttf) but you can also use font handles. A font handle searches the type.xml configuration file for a matching font. In this file you can set the font style, weight, etc. For example, you will find Helvetica defined in type-ghostscript.xml as

• <type
  name="Helvetica"
  fullname="Helvetica Regular"
  family="Helvetica"
  foundry="URW"
  weight="400"
  style="normal"
  stretch="normal"
  format="type1"
  metrics="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.afm"
  glyphs="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb"
  />

You can also use the MagickLib::GetTypeInfoByFamily() method whose signature is

• const TypeInfo *GetTypeInfoByFamily(const char *family,
  const StyleType style,const StretchType stretch,
  const unsigned long weight,ExceptionInfo *exception)

then use MagickLib::GetTypeInfoByFamily()->name as the image->font() parameter.