✏️ Java Swing Font Chooser Dialog and Panel

Java does not provide a lightweight font chooser out of the box. This easy to use Java Swing font chooser component allows users to select a font by selecting a font family name and the installed font variants. Users are able to search for a font and insert their own preview text.

Compact design
Looks good on every operating system
Allows to find a font family easily
Supports font styles
Shows font in preview
Allows to change the preview text
Compatible with Java 8 and upwards
Easy to use
Well documented with Javadoc
No dependencies

👯 Cross Platform

🐧 GTK / Linux

🍎 Aqua / Mac

🏢 Windows

There are translations for the following languages:

English
German
Greek
Hungarian
Spanish
Finnish
French
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian

Font Chooser is an open source project and completely free. I appreciate improvements or extensions. Please contact me if you have questions.

🔧 Usage

Include the following dependency to your project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.drjekyll</groupId>
    <artifactId>fontchooser</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.1</version>
 </dependency>

or Gradle with Groovy DSL:

implementation 'org.drjekyll:fontchooser:2.5.1'

or Gradle with Kotlin DSL:

implementation("org.drjekyll:fontchooser:2.5.1")

If you want to apply a font to a specific component, e.g. a text area, simply use

JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
FontDialog.showDialog(textArea);

This will display the modal font dialog and apply the font to the component, if the user clicked OK.

Here is another simple example on how to use the font chooser dialog in your application:

FontDialog dialog = new FontDialog((Frame)null,"Font Dialog Example",true);
dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
dialog.setVisible(true);
if(!dialog.isCancelSelected()){
  System.out.printf("Selected font is: %s%n",dialog.getSelectedFont());
}

You'll find more examples in the module fontchooser-example:

🔨 Building

Please use Maven to build and test the project.

mvn install

This will install the version to your local repository. You can now include it:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.drjekyll</groupId>
    <artifactId>fontchooser</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
 </dependency>

or Gradle with Groovy DSL:

implementation 'org.drjekyll:fontchooser:2.5.1-SNAPSHOT'

or Gradle with Kotlin DSL:

implementation("org.drjekyll:fontchooser:2.5.1-SNAPSHOT")

🤝 Contributing and Credits

Please see here: Contributing

📓 Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

📜 License

GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html

📢 Release Notes

2.5.1

Introduced Lombok
Migrated to JUnit 5
Updated dependencies and plugins
Migrated to GitHub

weisJ/fontchooser