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Hello all. I recently did something to my fonts folder, and it seems to have done something with some of my system fonts because now some of the text that I see online is in italics instead of normal font.
Does anyone know where I could download the default system fonts for a computer running Windows XP Home Edition 2002? Thanks!
Hope this helps,
I had the same thing happen with Vista, and quite by chance (and good luck) the following put everything back to normal.(It's odd, don't laugh)
I went into 'advanced appearance' changed a couple of colors, and when I exited, all my fonts were OK again. Bizzare
I went into 'advanced appearance' changed a couple of colors, and when I exited, all my fonts were OK again. Bizzare
That may be because some of those fonts are tied to the theme. You can change fonts in advanced appearance, so maybe Vista said whoa! I need those fonts back for the gui!
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The accepted answer doesn't really answer the question; it just explains why this behavior is occurring.Some of the other answers propose solid workarounds, but I've found that the best solution really is to create a base form that all of the forms in your application inherit from and set this base form's Font property to SystemFonts.MessageBoxFont in the constructor. This not only ensures that your application picks up the correct font at run-time, based on the user's environment (heading off the potential problem posed by Hans Passant—an XP without Office 2007 will resort to Microsoft Sans Serif in the absence of Segoe UI), but also gives you design-time support for your current Windows font. Using the correct font at design time solves the problem Josuegomes points out, because any container control that is created on the form will pick up the font used by the form at design-time.Besides the above advantages, this frees you from having to remember to modify the constructor for each form that you create and ensures consistency across all of the forms in your application, as well as giving you a place to put other common functionality. I use this in a couple of different ways such as p/invoking, etc.
To fix bugs in the WinForms implementation.The only problem that remains with this approach is if you want to set a font style for a particular control, such as bold. The best place to do this is still in that form's constructor, starting with the form's font as a base and modifying the style from it: myControl.Font = New Font(Me.Font, FontStyle.Bold).
Yes, it uses the font returned by GetStockObject(DEFAULTGUIFONT). Which is MS Sans Serif. An old font, long gone from most machines. The font mapper translate it to, no surprise, Microsoft Sans Serif.There is no documented procedure I know of to change that default font, the SDK docs mention MS Sans Serif explicitly.
If you want Segoe, you'll have to ask for it. Which isn't that safe to do, there are still a lot of XP machines out there without Office 2007. The font mapper will translate it on a machine that doesn't have Segoe available. Not sure what pops out, I don't have such a machine left anymore. The Control.DefaultFont is ReadOnly; one hacky was to overwrite it is to use reflection.
Type settingsType = typeof(Control);var defaultFontField = settingsType.GetField('defaultFont', BindingFlags.Static BindingFlags.NonPublic);defaultFontField.SetValue(null, new Font('Segoe UI', 8.25F));Be sure to have a UT keeping an eye on this code, there is no API contract to protect you if the Framework implementation changes.Also be aware of forms designer which most of the time will insert the font verbatim in.designer classes.