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I'd like to create a new Font object using a TTF file. It is really simple to create a Font object but I don't know how to set color and size because I can't find a method for it?

InputStream is = new FileInputStream("helvetica.ttf");
Font helvetica = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, is);
Andrew Thompson
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Font's don't have a color; only when using the font you can set the color of the component. For example, when using a JTextArea:

JTextArea txt = new JTextArea();
Font font = new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 12);
txt.setFont(font);
txt.setForeground(Color.BLUE);

According to this link, the createFont() method creates a new Font object with a point size of 1 and style PLAIN. So, if you want to increase the size of the Font, you need to do this:

 Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File("A.ttf"));
 return font.deriveFont(12f);
Erik Pragt
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Well, once you have your font, you can invoke deriveFont. For example,

helvetica = helvetica.deriveFont(Font.BOLD, 12f);

Changes the font's style to bold and its size to 12 points.

Zong
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Because font doesn't have color, you need a panel to make a backgound color and give the foreground color for both JLabel (if you use JLabel) and JPanel to make font color, like example below :

JLabel lblusr = new JLabel("User name : ");
lblusr.setForeground(Color.YELLOW);

JPanel usrPanel = new JPanel();
Color maroon = new Color (128, 0, 0);
usrPanel.setBackground(maroon);
usrPanel.setOpaque(true);
usrPanel.setForeground(Color.YELLOW);
usrPanel.add(lblusr);

The background color of label is maroon with yellow font color.

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To set the color of a font, you must first initialize the color by doing this:

Color maroon = new Color (128, 0, 0);

Once you've done that, you then put:

Font font = new Font ("Courier New", 1, 25); //Initializes the font
c.setColor (maroon); //Sets the color of the font
c.setFont (font); //Sets the font
c.drawString ("Your text here", locationX, locationY); //Outputs the string

Note: The 1 represents the type of font and this can be used to replace Font.PLAIN and the 25 represents the size of your font.

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