# Package java.awt.font

package java.awt.font
Provides classes and interface relating to fonts. It contains support for representing Type 1, Type 1 Multiple Master fonts, OpenType fonts, and TrueType fonts.

Since:
  1.2

- Related Packages
  Package
  Description
  java.awt
  Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
- Class
  Description
  FontRenderContext
  The `FontRenderContext` class is a container for the information needed to correctly measure text.
  GlyphJustificationInfo
  The `GlyphJustificationInfo` class represents information about the justification properties of a glyph.
  GlyphMetrics
  The `GlyphMetrics` class represents information for a single glyph.
  GlyphVector
  A `GlyphVector` object is a collection of glyphs containing geometric information for the placement of each glyph in a transformed coordinate space which corresponds to the device on which the `GlyphVector` is ultimately displayed.
  GraphicAttribute
  This class is used with the CHAR_REPLACEMENT attribute.
  ImageGraphicAttribute
  The `ImageGraphicAttribute` class is an implementation of `GraphicAttribute` which draws images in a `TextLayout`.
  LayoutPath
  LayoutPath provides a mapping between locations relative to the baseline and points in user space.
  LineBreakMeasurer
  The `LineBreakMeasurer` class allows styled text to be broken into lines (or segments) that fit within a particular visual advance.
  LineMetrics
  The `LineMetrics` class allows access to the metrics needed to layout characters along a line and to layout of a set of lines.
  MultipleMaster
  The `MultipleMaster` interface represents Type 1 Multiple Master fonts.
  NumericShaper
  The `NumericShaper` class is used to convert Latin-1 (European) digits to other Unicode decimal digits.
  NumericShaper.Range
  A `NumericShaper.Range` represents a Unicode range of a script having its own decimal digits.
  OpenType
  The `OpenType` interface represents OpenType and TrueType fonts.
  ShapeGraphicAttribute
  The `ShapeGraphicAttribute` class is an implementation of `GraphicAttribute` that draws shapes in a `TextLayout`.
  TextAttribute
  The `TextAttribute` class defines attribute keys and attribute values used for text rendering.
  TextHitInfo
  The `TextHitInfo` class represents a character position in a text model, and a bias, or "side," of the character.
  TextLayout
  `TextLayout` is an immutable graphical representation of styled character data.
  TextLayout.CaretPolicy
  Defines a policy for determining the strong caret location.
  TextMeasurer
  The `TextMeasurer` class provides the primitive operations needed for line break: measuring up to a given advance, determining the advance of a range of characters, and generating a `TextLayout` for a range of characters.
  TransformAttribute
  The `TransformAttribute` class provides an immutable wrapper for a transform so that it is safe to use as an attribute.