4.6 Creating Font Derivations

Using the Font.deriveFont methods, you can create a new Font object with different attributes from an existing Font object. Often, a transform is applied to the existing Font to create a new derived Font. To do this, you:

1. Create a Font object.,
2. Create the AffineTransform you want to apply to the Font.
3. Call Font.deriveFont, passing in the AffineTransform.

In this way, you could easily create a Font in a custom size or a skewed version of an existing Font.

In the following code excerpt, an AffineTransform is applied to create a skewed version of the font Helvetica. The new derived font is then used to render a string.

	// Create a transformation for the font.

AffineTransform fontAT = new AffineTransform();

fontAT.setToShear(-1.2, 0.0);

// Create a Font Object.

Font theFont = new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, 1);

// Derive a new font using the shear transform

theDerivedFont = theFont.deriveFont(fontAT);

// Add the derived font to the Graphics2D context

g2.setFont(theDerivedFont);

// Render a string using the derived font

g2.drawString("Java", 0.0f, 0.0f);