FontShower for Swing : Java Glossary

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This view this page, you should have a recent Java installed, preferably 32-bit JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.7.0_04.
FontShower for Swing
This Applet for showing you which Swing fonts you have installed available to Java and what they look like in various sizes. This Applet will help you write Java code. It will show you what Swing fonts are available via Java on your machine, and what they look like in a variety of styles, sizes and colours.

Click any ball to view the corresponding colour palette.

Named Colours select palette Alphabetically (113) select palette BHS: by Brightness, Hue, Saturation select palette HBS: by Hue, Brightness, Saturation select palette SBH: by Saturation, Brightness, Hue select palette Java AWT Colours (16,777,216)
select palette RGB: Numerically (113) select palette BSH: by Brightness, Saturation, Hue select palette HSB: by Hue, Saturation, Brightness select palette SHB: by Saturation, Hue, Brightness selected palette Java Swing Colours (16,777,216)
Numbered Colours select palette HTML 3.2 (16) select palette Websafe (216) select palette Rainbow (4096) select palette Spectrum (401) select palette X11 (657)
Selected Colours select palette Pale (256) select palette Dark (2022) select palette Simple (105) select palette Greys (256) select palette Colour Schemes

This Applet will let you generate foreground and background colours from a palette of any of 16,777,216 numbered colours. This range of colour/color possibilities is known as the gamut.

Sorry, you need Java 1.3 or later to run this Applet.

If, FontShower, the above Font Shower for Swing Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) does not work…

  1. If Copy/Paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) do not work, you can turn them back on by modifying your java.policy file. This is not for the novice or faint of heart. instructions Your alternative is to download this program and run it without a browser.
  2. Often problems can be fixed simply by clicking the reload button on your browser.
  3. Make sure you have both JavaScript and Java enabled in your browser.
  4. This Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) needs 32-bit (not 64-bit) Java 1.3 or later. For best results use the latest 1.7.0_04. If you have both 32 and 64-bit JVMs installed, in the Java Control Panel, configure your 32-bit java.exe as the user JVM and your 64-bit java.exe as the system JVM. You also need a recent browser.
  5. It works under any operating system that supports Java e.g. W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W7-32/W7-64/Linux/Ubuntu/Solaris/OSX
  6. You should see the Applet hybrid above looking much like this screenshot. If you don’t, the following hints should help you get it working:
  7. Especially if this Applet hybrid has worked before, try clearing the browser cache and rebooting.
  8. To ensure your Java is up to date, check with Wassup. First, download it and run it as an application independent of your browser, then run it online as an Applet to add the complication of your browser.
  9. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, check the Java console for error messages.
  10. If the above Applet hybrid does not work, you might have better luck with the downloadable version available below.
  11. If you are using Mac OS X and would like an improved Look and Feel, download the QuaQua look & feel from randelshofer.ch/quaqua. UnZip the contained quaqua.jar and install it in ~/Library/Java/Extensions or one of the other ext dirs.
  12. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9, try another browser. Seriously. Microsoft has taken great pains, over and over, to screw up Java and every other multi-platform standardisation.
  13. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9, you must click to allow blocked content permission for Active X to run. This also gives permission to Java to run. Click the Information bar, and then click Allow blocked content. Unfortunately, this also allows dangerous ActiveX code to run. However, you must do this in order to get access to perfectly-safe Java Applets running in a sandbox. This is part of Microsoft’s war on Java. Don’t put up with it! Use a different browser.
  14. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, makes sure the Java Plug-In SSV helper add-in is installed and enabled. If it is not, try reinstalling the Java JRE.
  15. If you have Windows 7 64-bit and Internet Explorer 64-bit, in theory you can use 64-bit Java, but I never been able to get it to work.
  16. Try upgrading to a more recent version of your browser, or try a different browser e.g. Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari or Avant.
  17. If you still can’t get the program working click HELP for more detail.
  18. If you can’t get the above Applet hybrid working after trying the advice above and from the HELP button below, have bugs to report or ideas to improve the program or its documentation, please send me an email atemail Roedy Green.
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FontShower is displaying the Swing fonts available on your machine via Java. Other people will have different fonts installed and will see different selections available via Java on their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different set of fonts than this Java Applet does. Java has a few extra private fonts, and some browser fonts don’t work with Java.

Some of the fonts may just show empty squares. These are older 8-bit fonts that don’t support 16-bit Unicode used by Java. Don’t necessarily delete them ( by clicking Control Panel ⇒ fonts ⇒ delete) since word processing documents, or the DOS (Disk Operating System) box, may still be using them. on the other hand, pruning out ugly fonts you never use will speed up your machine.

You may not notice any difference with font-smoothing anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing does not work on some machines. Look for the anti-alias smoothing especially in very large font sizes in capital W in the fonts with thin spidery diagonals, e.g. Bodoni, Book Antiqua, Garamond, Serif and Zapf Calligraphic.

precis of the current version. download source and executable to run this Applet on your own machine as a stand-alone application.
anti-aliasing
browser fonts shows what fonts your browser supports
Fonts
FontShower for AWT
FontShower Student Project
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Reuters Unicode Displayer
Unicode
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