Click any ball to view the corresponding colour palette.

Named Colours		Alphabetically (113)		BHS: by Brightness, Hue, Saturation		HBS: by Hue, Brightness, Saturation		SBH: by Saturation, Brightness, Hue		Java AWT Colours (16,777,216)
		RGB: Numerically (113)		BSH: by Brightness, Saturation, Hue		HSB: by Hue, Saturation, Brightness		SHB: by Saturation, Hue, Brightness		Java Swing Colours (16,777,216)
Numbered Colours		HTML 3.2 (16)		Websafe (216)		Rainbow (4096)		Spectrum (401)		X11 (657)
Selected Colours		Pale (256)		Dark (2022)		Simple (105)		Greys (256)		Colour Schemes

If the above Font Shower for AWT Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) does not work…

1. This Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) needs Java 1.2 or later, ideally version 1.6.0_06 and a recent browser.
2. You should see an Applet above looking much like the screenshot. If you don’t, the following should help you get it working:
3. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, try another browser. Seriously. Microsoft has taken great pains, over and over, to screw up Java and every other mult-platform standardisation.
4. If you are using Internet Explorer 7, you must allow blocked content permission for Active X to run. This also gives permission to Java to run. Click the Information bar, and then click Allow blocked content. Unfortunately, this also allows dangerous ActiveX code to run. However, you must do this in order to get access to perfectly-safe Java Applets running in a sandbox. This is part of Microsoft’s war on Java. Don’t put up with it! Use a different browser.
5. To ensure your Java is up to date, check with Wassup.
6. If the above Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) does not work, check the Java console for error messages.
7. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, you might have better luck with the downloadable version.
8. If you still can’t get the program working click HELP for more detail.
9. If you can’t get the program working after trying the advice above and from the HELP button below, have bugs to report or ideas to improve the program or its documentation, please send me an email at.

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Unfortunately, in AWT, only the basic logical fonts: Dialog, DialogInput, Monospaced, SansSerif, and Serif are available for use in Labels, TextFields and TextAreas. To get other fonts shown here, you must write a custom component based on Canvas and drawString.

The Canvas displays were done with a custom AWT Canvas-based component. This lets you use all the fonts and all the characters in the fonts. The source code is available.

The alternate vanilla AWT TextArea display is based on a native OS peer (as are as Label and TextField). It can only display the 5 basic logical fonts and then only some of the characters in those fonts. You have no control in Java over whether TextAreas are anti-aliased. They are rendered by the OS, not Java, and hence are controlled by whether font smoothing is turned on in the Control Panel.

You may not notice any difference with font-smoothing anti-aliasing. Look for the anti-alias smoothing especially in very large font sizes in capital W in the fonts with thin spidery diagonals, e.g. Bodoni, Book Antiqua, Garamond, Serif and Zapf Calligraphic.

Some of the fonts may just show empty squares. These are older 8-bit fonts that don’t support 16-bit Unicode used by Java. Don’t necessarily delete them ( by clicking Control Panel ⇒ fonts ⇒ delete) since word processing documents, or the DOS box, may still be using them. on the other hand, pruning out ugly fonts you never use will speed up your machine.