JavaFX Font not being rendered correctly

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public class Main extends Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");

        Button btn = new Button();
        btn.setText("Hello");
        btn.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

            @Override
            public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
                System.out.println("Hello World!");
            }
        });

        StackPane root = new StackPane();
        root.getChildren().add(btn);
        primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 300, 250));
        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

Getting following first lines on console:

35026:1978749] CoreText note: Client requested name ".SFNS-Regular", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:]. 2021-06-09 00:00:46.808 java[35026:1978749] CoreText note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSystemFontNameRequest to debug. 2021-06-09 00:00:46.815 java[35026:1978749] CoreText note: Client requested name ".SFNS-Regular", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:]. 2021-06-09 00:00:46.982 java[35026:1978817] CoreText note: Client requested name ".SFNS-Regular", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].

OS: macOS javafx-sdk-11.0.2 jdk 11

instead of Hello getting following text on button

I don't have an answer, just a suggestion. By default, JavaFX uses logical fonts which have mappings to physical fonts and those mappings also depend on the default [locale](https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk8-jre8-suported-locales.html). I don't have MacOS but you should check what physical font Java is trying to load and then check whether that font can display `Hello World!`. — Abra, Jun 09 '21 at 07:59

Duhvoi · Answer 1 · 2021-06-12T16:23:35.627

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~~The issue is that you do not have the font: ".SFNS-Regular" either installed or configured correctly so that JavaFx can tell where it is~~. I'm actually not sure if it is because of the font not being installed/configured correctly but....

What I had to do to resolve this was to add:

* {
   -fx-font-family: 'serif'
}

in my root CSS file. If you are not using CSS files or are using inline styles, then you can still set a global font:

Instead of this:

primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 300, 250));

You can do something like this:

Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);
scene.getRoot().setStyle("-fx-font-family: 'serif'");
primaryStage.setScene(scene);

You can read more about JavaFX fonts here as well as additional CSS configurations for the components. Using CSS files is a great way to separate the component styles from their logic and if you have created web pages before, it will feel very familiar and really easy to pick up.

edited Jun 12 '21 at 16:23

answered Jun 12 '21 at 16:12

Duhvoi

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It helps, thanks for the contributing! – Eugene Dec 30 '21 at 06:19
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It does work, but you have to do it for every scene. Is there a way to set this globally ? – Olivier Gérardin Jan 28 '22 at 22:24
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After some research: you can set a global font by calling Application.setUserAgentStylesheet() but unfortunately you need to set the whole global stylesheet, you can't add a stylesheet to the default one. – Olivier Gérardin Jan 28 '22 at 23:10
Yeah it works but you have to do it everywhere. – Hasen Jun 30 '22 at 11:09

Joshua Schoemmell · Answer 2 · 2021-09-07T17:48:22.877

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I fixed the issue by switching the Module SDK back to 11.0.8. You can find that here on the Java SE 11 Archive Downloads page.

Seems that this is isolated to 11.0.12.

edited Sep 07 '21 at 17:48

answered Sep 07 '21 at 17:39

Joshua Schoemmell

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Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as working code or documentation citations. – Community Sep 07 '21 at 18:11

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 02 '22 at 22:46

I was able to resolve the issue by adjusting the JDK version and I was also using macOS and JDK 11. Although I did not have JDK 8, JDK 14 worked fine and JDK 17 did not. It will work fine if you change the project structure to a more compatible JDK version with JavaFx.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 05 '22 at 22:24

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Using another version of JDK11 fixed this for me:

JDK 11.0.15, AdoptOpenJDK(HotSpot)

answered Jul 05 '22 at 22:24

Lynne

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score -5 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 02 '21 at 16:21

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How can one correct the same issue in a "fxml."

<font>
    <Font name="Times New Roman bold" size="20"/>
    </font>

in other words, What would replaced in <Font...."20"/> to make the same correction. Thanks kinda new at this

answered Sep 02 '21 at 16:21

ccraig17

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Is that a question or the answer? – Marcin Rzepecki Sep 02 '21 at 17:21
Please provide additional details in your answer. As it's currently written, it's hard to understand your solution. – Community Sep 02 '21 at 17:21
I'm guessing your answer is a question and the answer to your question is: [FXML Label text bold](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49813907/fxml-label-text-bold) – jewelsea Sep 02 '21 at 23:24
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