FontFamily

FontFamily

marshal by reference, disposable

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System.Drawing (system.drawing.dll)

sealed class

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 applicationoften 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 FontFamily  GenericSerif  {get; }  // Public Instance Properties  public string  Name  {get; }  // Public Static Methods  public static FontFamily[ ]  GetFamilies  (Graphics  graphics  );  // Public Instance Methods  public void  Dispose  ();  // implements IDisposable  public override bool  Equals  (object  obj  );  // overrides object  public int  GetCellAscent  (FontStyle  style  );    public int  GetCellDescent  (FontStyle  style  );    public int  GetEmHeight  (FontStyle  style  );    public override int  GetHashCode  ();  // overrides object  public int  GetLineSpacing  (FontStyle  style  );    public string  GetName  (int  language  );    public bool  IsStyleAvailable  (FontStyle  style  );    public override string  ToString  ();  // overrides object   // Protected Instance Methods  protected override void  Finalize  ();  // overrides object  } 

Hierarchy

System.Object System.MarshalByRefObject FontFamily(System.IDisposable)

Returned By

Font.FontFamily , System.Drawing.Text.FontCollection.Families

Passed To

System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath.AddString() , Font.Font()