Text and font in windows programming

All but one of the examples use point text, but they may look better at other sizes. One of core Windows fonts, Arial is often overlooked, but it is a clear and readable typeface. Most systems have it installed, but Arial is also available from SourceForge. This is a monospaced version of Bitstream Vera Sans which many programmers will prefer. I find it a little wide, but characters are certainly easier to identify. It is available in the Bitstream Vera Sans download above.

Consolas is a relatively new Microsoft font that is installed in Vista or available as a separate download. It is a very clear and compact monospace font and is being used by more developers. View all page feedback. In this article. Franklin Gothic Medium. Lucida Sans Unicode. Microsoft New Tai Lue. Microsoft Sans Serif. Plantagenet Cherokee. Inconsolata Medium 12pt It seems fuzzier than necessary and some letters end up with a nib below them. Anonymous Pro, Regular, 11pt Anonymous Pro is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed with coding in mind.

Anonymous Pro features an international, Unicode-based character set, with support for most Western and Central European Latin-based languages, plus Greek and Cyrillic. Anonymous Pro contains embedded bitmaps for smaller sizes, Anonymous Pro Minus does not. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development.

Terminus, Regular 12pt Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long 8 and more hours per day work with computers, remember to turn off aliasing. An open source programming font released by Adobe, made with the intent of maximizing usability and avoiding common design flaws in monospaced fonts. Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Roman, 11pt It has a fully-serifed i and excellent numerals, and a lowercase. Quite narrow like Anonymous Pro but squarish, the letters are easy to read and offer a pleasing reading experience.

Monofur, Regular, 13pt monofur is a monospaced font all characters have the same width derived from the eurofurence typeface family. It shares the same style characteristics, but the proportions of most characters have been recalculated to fit into a character cell. Glyphs and glyph runs are available at the lowest layer of functionality of the DirectWrite API, the glyph-rendering layer.

This is the font collection that is most frequently used. However some applications have to use fonts that are not installed on the system, such as from included font files or font files embedded in the application. If the fonts that you want are not in the system font collection, you can create a custom font collection derived from IDWriteFontCollection. OpenType Variable Fonts. This topic describes OpenType variable fonts, their support in DirectWrite and Direct2D, and how to use them in your app.

For those developers that are migrating their Win32 application code, the following table lists the Win32 Text APIs and the approximate equivalent in DirectWrite. Interoperating with GDI.