Physical Fonts for Version 1.2 of the JDK Software

Starting with the 1.2 release, the JDK software includes a set of TrueType fonts in the lib/fonts subdirectory. Prior to the 1.2 release, the JDK software relied on the host platform fonts. Logical fonts, such as Monospaced, are mapped to the host platform fonts in the font.properties file. To distinguish them from the logical fonts, this document refers to the TrueType fonts as the physical fonts for the JDK software.

Benefits

• Consistent Look and Feel

  Your applications will look the same on all platforms because they'll use the same fonts. This makes testing, deployment, and support easier in a cross-platform environment.

• Rich Character Sets

  You don't have to always switch fonts if you use characters from various scripts. For example, in a text component that uses the Lucida Sans Regular font, you can display characters in Hebrew, Arabic, German, and English. (Asian character sets for the physical fonts are not supported in the current (1.2.0) release.)

• Euro Currency Symbol

  All of the physical fonts of the JDK software support the Euro currency symbol.

Lucida Font Family

• Lucida Sans Regular
• Lucida Sans Bold
• Lucida Sans Oblique
• Lucida Sans Bold Oblique

• Lucida Bright Regular
• Lucida Bright Bold
• Lucida Bright Italic
• Lucida Bright Bold Italic

• Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular
• Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold
• Lucida Sans Typewriter Oblique
• Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold Oblique

Related Methods

• Toolkit.getFontList

  Returns an array of logical font names.

• GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts

  Returns an array of physical fonts in this environment. The fonts returned include the host platform fonts and the physical fonts of the JDK software.