How can I use a custom font in Java?

by

If you include a font file (otf, ttf, etc.) in your package, you can use the font in your application via the method described here:

Oracle Java SE 6: java.awt.Font

There is a tutorial available from Oracle that shows this example:

try {
     GraphicsEnvironment ge = 
         GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
     ge.registerFont(Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File("A.ttf")));
} catch (IOException|FontFormatException e) {
     //Handle exception
}

I would probably wrap this up in some sort of resource loader though as to not reload the file from the package every time you want to use it.

An answer more closely related to your original question would be to install the font as part of your application’s installation process. That process will depend on the installation method you choose. If it’s not a desktop app you’ll have to look into the links provided.

More Related Contents:

  1. Custom fonts and XML layouts (Android)
  2. Getting fonts, sizes, bold,…etc
  3. How do you import a font?
  4. Setting the Default Font of Swing Program
  5. How to change font size in Eclipse for Java text editors?
  6. How to change the size of the font of a JLabel to take the maximum size
  7. How can I test if my font is rendered correctly in pdf?
  8. Issue when using a custom font – “native typeface cannot be made”
  9. Setting custom font
  10. How to retrieve a list of available/installed fonts in android?
  11. Bind Font Size in JavaFX?
  12. Using custom font in android TextView using xml
  13. Change Font at runtime
  14. Display an Unicode character on JButton
  15. How to set the DPI of Java Swing apps on Windows/Linux?
  16. Convert text content to Image
  17. When running the program in netBeans the font looks extremely weird
  18. Unicode characters in app doesn’t show correctly [closed]
  19. SWT – OS agnostic way to get monospaced font
  20. Font Awesome with Swing
  21. Character display/search for Unicode characters
  22. How to set a custom font to the title in toolbar android
  23. How to add new fonts to Itext using java
  24. What is the difference between javac and the Eclipse compiler?
  25. Why does Hibernate require no argument constructor?
  26. Changing JPanel Graphics g color drawing line
  27. How do I include a JSP file from a different project into my project
  28. How to read data from XLS (Excel) file [Java, Android]
  29. Java SFTP server library? [closed]
  30. Converting transparent gif / png to jpeg using java

Leave a Comment