1. JavaFX Tutorial
2. JavaFX Overview
3. Your First JavaFX Application
4. JavaFX Stage
5. JavaFX Scene
6. JavaFX Node
7. JavaFX Properties
8. JavaFX FXML
9. JavaFX CSS Styling
10. JavaFX ImageView
11. JavaFX Text
12. JavaFX Fonts
13. JavaFX Hyperlink
14. JavaFX Label
15. JavaFX Button
16. JavaFX MenuButton
17. JavaFX SplitMenuButton
18. JavaFX ToggleButton
19. JavaFX RadioButton
20. JavaFX CheckBox
21. JavaFX ChoiceBox
22. JavaFX ComboBox
23. JavaFX ListView
24. JavaFX DatePicker
25. JavaFX ColorPicker
26. JavaFX TextField
27. JavaFX PasswordField
28. JavaFX Slider
29. JavaFX TextArea
30. JavaFX ToolBar
31. JavaFX Tooltip
32. JavaFX ProgressBar
33. JavaFX FileChooser
34. JavaFX DirectoryChooser
35. JavaFX Accordion
36. JavaFX TitledPane
37. JavaFX SplitPane
38. JavaFX TabPane
39. JavaFX ScrollPane
40. JavaFX Group
41. JavaFX Region
42. JavaFX Pane
43. JavaFX HBox
44. JavaFX VBox
45. JavaFX Separator
46. JavaFX FlowPane
47. JavaFX TilePane
48. JavaFX GridPane
49. JavaFX MenuBar
50. JavaFX ContexMenu
51. JavaFX WebView
52. JavaFX PieChart
53. JavaFX TableView
54. JavaFX TreeView
55. JavaFX TreeTableView
56. JavaFX HTMLEditor
57. JavaFX Pagination
58. JavaFX BarChart
59. JavaFX StackedBarChart
60. JavaFX ScatterChart
61. JavaFX LineChart
62. JavaFX AreaChart
63. JavaFX StackedAreaChart
64. JavaFX Color
65. JavaFX 2D
66. JavaFX Effects
67. JavaFX 3D
68. JavaFX Transformation
69. JavaFX Animation
70. JavaFX Media - JavaFX Video and Audio Support
71. JavaFX Canvas
72. JavaFX Drag and Drop
73. JavaFX Concurrency

• Create Font Instance
• Using the Font Instance
• List Installed Font Families and Names

The JavaFX Font class, java.scene.text.Font, enables you to load different Fonts for use in your JavaFX applications. A font is a text style. All text rendered with the same font will look similar. In this JavaFX Font tutorial I will show you how to load and set fonts in JavaFX.

Create Font Instance

To use fonts in JavaFX you must create a JavaFX Font instance. The easiest way to create a JavaFX Font instance is to use the static factory methods in the Font class. The following example shows how to create JavaFX Font instances using the many variations of the Font class static factory methods:

String      fontFamily  = "Arial";
double      fontSize    = 13;
FontWeight  fontWeight  = FontWeight.BOLD;
FontPosture fontPosture = FontPosture.ITALIC;

Font font1 = Font.font(fontFamily);
Font font2 = Font.font(fontSize);
Font font3 = Font.font(fontFamily, fontSize);
Font font4 = Font.font(fontFamily, fontWeight , fontSize);
Font font5 = Font.font(fontFamily, fontPosture, fontSize);
Font font6 = Font.font(fontFamily, fontWeight , fontPosture, fontSize);

As you can see, the Font factory methods enable you to create Font instances representing different font families, font sizes, font weights and font postures.

Using the Font Instance

Once you have created a JavaFX Font instance you use it by setting it on whatever JavaFX component capable of using a Font. For instance, you can set it on a JavaFX Text control. Here is an example of setting a Font instance on a Text control:

Font font = Font.font("Arial");

Text text = new Text("This is the text");
text.setFont(font);

Precisely how a Font object is applied to a given JavaFX control depends on the specific JavaFX control. In the JavaFX Text example the Font object is applied via the Text setFont() method, as shown above.

List Installed Font Families and Names

The JavaFX Font class provides two methods that can list the font families and font names and installed on the system the JavaFX application is running on. These methods are the getFamilies() and getFontNames() methods. Here are some examples of calling these methods:

List<String> fontFamilies = Font.getFamilies();
List<String> fontNames    = Font.getFontNames();

Both font family names and font names can be used when creating a Font instance. Provide either the font family name or font name in the Font factory method fontFamily parameter.

To see the actual names, loop through the lists above and print out their names, like this:

for(String item : fontFamilies) {
    System.out.println(item);
}
for(String item : fontNames) {
    System.out.println(item);
}