# Prospective changes to AnnotatedString and StyledStrings

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prospective-changes-to-annotatedstring-and-styledstrings/134847>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** stdlib\
**Created:** [January 2, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prospective-changes-to-annotatedstring-and-styledstrings/134847 "2026-01-02T19:40:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![matthias314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@matthias314](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthias314)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 2:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/prospective-changes-to-annotatedstring-and-styledstrings/134847/8 "2026-02-02T02:58:13Z")

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Something else I’ve [come across today](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-access-a-face-defined-in-faces-toml/135387): It seems to me that currently there is no way to retrieve the `Face` object associated to a given name. Suppose I want to know what attributes `julia_char` has. How do I do it (without creating an annotated string and examining it)? There is the private function `getface(face::Symbol)`, but it combines `face` with the default attributes.

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