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How to: Construct Font Families and Fonts
GDI+ groups fonts with the same typeface but different styles into font families. For example, the Arial font family contains the following fonts:
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Arial Regular
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Arial Bold
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Arial Italic
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Arial Bold Italic
GDI+ uses four styles to form families: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. Adjectives such as narrow and rounded are not considered styles; rather they are part of the family name. For example, Arial Narrow is a font family with the following members:
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Arial Narrow Regular
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Arial Narrow Bold
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Arial Narrow Italic
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Arial Narrow Bold Italic
Before you can draw text with GDI+, you need to construct a xref:System.Drawing.FontFamily object and a xref:System.Drawing.Font object. The xref:System.Drawing.FontFamily object specifies the typeface (for example, Arial), and the xref:System.Drawing.Font object specifies the size, style, and units.
Example
The following example constructs a regular style Arial font with a size of 16 pixels. In the following code, the first argument passed to the xref:System.Drawing.Font.%23ctor%2A constructor is the xref:System.Drawing.FontFamily object. The second argument specifies the size of the font measured in units identified by the fourth argument. The third argument identifies the style.
xref:System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Pixel is a member of the xref:System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit enumeration, and xref:System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular is a member of the xref:System.Drawing.FontStyle enumeration.
[!code-csharpSystem.Drawing.FontsAndText#61] [!code-vbSystem.Drawing.FontsAndText#61]
Compiling the Code
The preceding example is designed for use with Windows Forms, and it requires xref:System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e, which is a parameter of xref:System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler.