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Applying Fonts

Creating and Selecting a Font

To select a new font, you must first construct a Font object that describes that font. It is showm here

Font(String fontName, int fontStyle, int size)

Here is an example code to applying fonts and their styles

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class font extends Applet
{
	Font F,F1,F2;
	int Style,Size;
	String S,S1;
	public void init()
	{
                F=new Font("Helvetica",Font.BOLD,20);
                F1=new Font("Verdana",Font.BOLD+Font.ITALIC,20);
                F2=new Font("Westminster",Font.BOLD,20);
	}
	public void paint(Graphics g)
	{
		g.setColor(Color.green);
		g.setFont(F);
		g.drawString("Font is Helvetica",30,30);		
		g.setColor(Color.cyan);
		g.setFont(F1);
		g.drawString("Font is Verdana",30,30);
		g.setColor(Color.blue);
		g.setFont(F2);
		g.drawString("Font is Westminster",30,110);
                Style=F.getStyle();
                if(Style==Font.PLAIN)
		S="Plain";
                if(Style==Font.BOLD)
		S="Bold";
                if(Style==Font.ITALIC)
		S="Italic";
               else S="BOLD&ITALIC";
                Size=F2.getSize();
                S1=F2.getName();
		S1+="Size is"+Size+"Style is"+S;
		g.drawString(S1,30,180);
                g.drawString("Font Family is"+F2.getFamily(),30,250);
	}
}


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