Setting the font globally

[GDameron]

The out-of-the-box font I'm seeing in my JFrame GUI is too small. Is there a way to globally set the font so that all JComponents inherit the larger font?

GD

 

[timw]

I realise that there are probably better ways, but I use this:-

javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource f = new FontUIResource("<fontname_here>", java.awt.Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, <fontsize_here>);

java.util.Enumeration keys = UIManager.getDefaults().keys();
      while (keys.hasMoreElements()) {
  Object key = keys.nextElement();
  Object value = UIManager.get (key);
  if (value instanceof javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource)
    UIManager.put (key, f);
}

I've not had chance for ages to go back and re-consider this so I apologise if it's clunky.

Tim