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I am bit confused about chosing font for my winform application.

I want to chose a font which will go smoothly on Win7/XP/Vista. My application has been designed with windows Office2007 like bluish theme, and also has future requirement about provision for selecting other standard themes.

Currently all my user controls/forms and all other controls have arial fond. But it doesn;t look cool.

Can anybody know any good tricks/tips to chose a smart font for winapp? Or are there any guidelines to check for cool fonts for your apps?

Please suggest.

Thanks in advance, Kapil

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Use the system default. In Windows Vista and 7 that would be Segoe UI. It makes your app look consistent in the rest of the OS; otherwise, it will just stand out, and not always in a good way.

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There's a bug in Winforms [2008] where the default system font is not used. See this question and this post for more info, but the trick is to set the default app font to SystemFonts.MessageBoxFont which will give the correct system font. Make all your forms and controls inherit this, and the app will use the system font.

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