Get system default font

Question

Is there any way to get the system default font name in Java? The default font can differ from os. So it can create trouble if we use font Arial and the jar is running in Linux without having Arial font installed.

Answer 1

Try this:

private final Font FONT = new JLabel().getFont();

Answer 2

JavaFX makes this a lot easier:

import javafx.scene.text.Font;

then use:

Font defaultFont = Font.getDefault();

or

// Where 14 is the font size
Font defaultFont = new Font(14);