.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell

Name

FontFamily

Synopsis

A FontFamily represents a set of typefaces that share a common design, varying in particular stylistic ways. The fonts Arial, Arial Bold, and Arial Italic might make up a font family called Arial, for example.

A FontFamily is a resource-based object, and therefore its lifetime should be carefully managed, calling Dispose() to release the resources when they are no longer needed.

It can be constructed from a string containing the family name, from an entry in the System.Drawing.Text.GenericFontFamilies enumeration, or by providing a name to associate with a specific System.Drawing.Text.FontCollection, if you want to create your own family. In addition, there are static properties to get a GenericMonospace, GenericSansSerif, or GenericSerifFontFamily.

You can use a FontFamily to help manage font selection in your application—often where font selection is being determined through a user interface. To do this, there are Font constructors that enable you to select and instantiate a specific Font from a FontFamily.

public sealed class FontFamily : MarshalByRefObject : IDisposable {

// Public Constructors

   public FontFamily(System.Drawing.Text.GenericFontFamilies genericFamily);

   public FontFamily(string name);

   public FontFamily(string name, System.Drawing.Text.FontCollection fontCollection);

// Public Static Properties

   public static FontFamily[ ] Families{get; }

   public static FontFamily GenericMonospace{get; }

   public static FontFamily GenericSansSerif{get; } public static ...