def _getLayer(self, name, **kwargs):
        """
        This is the environment implementation of
        :meth:`BaseFont.getLayer`. **name** will
        be a :ref:`type-string`. It will have been
        normalized with :func:`normalizers.normalizeLayerName`
        and it will have been verified as an existing layer.
        This must return an instance of :class:`BaseLayer`.

        Subclasses may override this method.
        """
        for layer in self.layers:
            if layer.name == name:
                return layer