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Is there a way to set fonts on a string, and then draw the string using graphics? I know you can do it on Jlabels, and Jtextfields, and J-other components, but is there a way to do it just on the string instead? Thank you.

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You can do it with attributed strings an example of is

Font font = new Font("LucidaSans", Font.PLAIN, 14);
AttributedString atString= new AttributedString("Example text string");
atString.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, font);
graphic.drawString(atString.getIterator(),x,y);

Cheers!

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Yes, it's possible, start by checking out the Graphics, Text tutorials

Basically, you can set the font using Graphics#setFont and draw a String using Graphics#drawString.

Also see Performing Custom Painting for how you can perform custom painting in Swing

For example

List available font names....

String fonts[] = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames();
for (String font : fonts) {
    System.out.println(font);
}

or

Font fonts[] = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAllFonts();
for (Font font : fonts) {
    System.out.println(font);
}

You can manipulate a font's properties using one of the Font#derive methods...

 Font font = ...;
 Font bigger = font.derive(32f);
 Font bolder = font.derive(Font.BOLD);
 Font biggerAndBolder = font.derive(Font.BOLD, 32f);
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  • I see. When you set the font, you put the fonts name. And in the font below, I spelled times new roman wrong, yet it doesn't show up as an error. Why? static Font f = new Font("Times New Roan",Font.BOLD,20); – Ski Apr 02 '15 at 21:40
  • Why should it? If I recall correctly, the API has a fall back process, so if the font doesn't exist on the system, it falls back to common font instead – MadProgrammer Apr 02 '15 at 21:41
  • How do we know if the font exist on the API or not, then? Is there a full list of the available fonts somewhere? And how many contructors exist for creating fonts? – Ski Apr 02 '15 at 21:43
  • Something like `String fonts[] = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames();`. Have a look at [`GraphicsEnvironment.html#getAllFonts`](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/GraphicsEnvironment.html#getAllFonts()) and [`GraphicsEnvironment.html#getAvailableFontFamilyNames`](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/GraphicsEnvironment.html#getAvailableFontFamilyNames()) – MadProgrammer Apr 02 '15 at 21:48
  • also. How am I suppose to use this? public abstract Font[] getAllFonts() – Ski Apr 02 '15 at 21:52
  • `String fonts[] = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames();` ... – MadProgrammer Apr 02 '15 at 22:09
  • You do realise, getting a list of the available fonts was really part of the original question you asked ;) – MadProgrammer Apr 02 '15 at 22:10
  • See update (the original comment had additional unicode characters in it, which were screwing things up) – MadProgrammer Apr 02 '15 at 22:13
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We can actually set the font in graphics...and then draw the string. 

public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {

    super.paintComponent(g);

    g.setColor(Color.BLUE);
    g.setFont(Fonts.f);
    g.drawString(Fonts.text, 50, 50);

}
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