bundled fonts : Java Glossary

2008-03-28 by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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bundled fonts

Happily you don’t have to buy all your fonts. Some are free, and some come bundled with other products.

Java comes with eight TrueType *.ttf fonts:

Java’s Eight Built-in JRE Fonts
File	Font Name
LucidaBrightRegular.ttf	Lucida Bright (Regular)
LucidaBrightDemiBold.ttf	Lucida Bright (Demibold)
LucidaBrightItalic.ttf	Lucida Bright (Italic)
LucidaBrightDemiItalic.ttf	Lucida Bright (Demibold Italic)

LucidaSansRegular.ttf	Lucida Sans (Regular)
LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf	Lucida Sans (Demibold)

LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf	Lucida Sans Typewriter (Regular)
LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf	Lucida Sans Typewriter (Bold)

You don’t even need to use Java to get the free fonts, just install the JRE ( Java run time ). However, to use the fonts outside Java you must manually install them from C:\Program Files\java\jre1.6.0_06\lib\fonts. You are permitted to redistribute the fonts, but only if you include the entire JRE.

MS Office and MS Publisher come bundled with fonts such as:

Your PostScript printer comes with 35 fonts built-in, but you can’t get at them from Java under Windows.

acquiring fonts
Codestyle.org’s Font Popularity Statistics
Commonly Installed Fonts
Default CSS fonts
Font Classifications
Fonts
Fonts available in Java on your machine
FontShower: display fonts in various sizes and colours without and without anti-aliasing
Free Fonts
Hershey Fonts (platform independent and rotatable)
Java Logical Fonts
Keith Devens’ list of programmer fonts
logical fonts
Luc Devroye’s free font list
Monospace Fonts
MS Office and Publisher Fonts
PostScript Fonts
programmer fonts
Proportional Fonts
Trevor Lowing’s list of programmer fonts
TrueType Fonts
Vista Fonts
XP Fonts

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