Summary
The AWT provides two color models: index color models and direct color models. Index color models interpret pixel values as indices into a colormap, whereas direct color models directly interpret the bits in a pixel value.
Colors are represented by the java.awt.Color class, which provides a set of constants for commonly used colors, in addition to convenience methods for obtaining darker and lighter shades of a color, comparing two colors for equality, etc.
Fonts are represented by the java.awt.Font class, which allows the construction of fonts by specifying a logical font name, style, and point size. Logical font names are always mapped onto native fonts so, for instance, a SanSerif logical name will map to different fonts on different ...
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