How to: Construct Font Families and Fonts
GDI+ groups fonts with the same typeface but different styles into font families. For example, the Arial font family contains the following fonts:
Arial Regular
Arial Bold
Arial Italic
Arial Bold Italic
GDI+ uses four styles to form families: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. Adjectives such as narrow and *rounded *are not considered styles; rather they are part of the family name. For example, Arial Narrow is a font family with the following members:
Arial Narrow Regular
Arial Narrow Bold
Arial Narrow Italic
Arial Narrow Bold Italic
Before you can draw text with GDI+, you need to construct a FontFamily object and a Font object. The FontFamily object specifies the typeface (for example, Arial), and the Font object specifies the size, style, and units.
Example
The following example constructs a regular style Arial font with a size of 16 pixels. In the following code, the first argument passed to the Font constructor is the FontFamily object. The second argument specifies the size of the font measured in units identified by the fourth argument. The third argument identifies the style.
Pixel is a member of the GraphicsUnit enumeration, and Regular is a member of the FontStyle enumeration.
Dim fontFamily As New FontFamily("Arial")
Dim font As New Font( _
fontFamily, _
16, _
FontStyle.Regular, _
GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily("Arial");
Font font = new Font(
fontFamily,
16,
FontStyle.Regular,
GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
Compiling the Code
The preceding example is designed for use with Windows Forms, and it requires PaintEventArgs e, which is a parameter of PaintEventHandler.