What font in Swing looks the same in all OS?

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Instead, use a layout manager and a logical font family. This example with the Font below adds 24-point italic serif text to the center of a (default) BorderLayout to achieve a pleasing result on disparate platforms.

ta.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.ITALIC, 24));

Mac OS X:

Mac

Windows 7:

Windows

Ubuntu Linux:

Linux

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