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So I'm trying to make a simple application, and I got a window appearing. The problem is that I require some special font, which I doubt would be installed on the user's OS, so I've got to load it from a file.

I've read countless articles and I've been stuck on this for quite a while.

The font IS being copied to the output directory in

<packages-with-classes>

fonts

 -> gameFont.ttf

This is the code I'm using

    displayArea = new JTextArea();

    displayArea.setEditable(false);



    //FONT to give graphics (plz help me)

    GraphicsEnvironment ge = null;

    try {

        //ge = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();

        /*Font initFont = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, Main.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/fonts/gameFont.ttf") );

        Font fontBase = initFont.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, 20);*/

        Font gameFnt = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, Main.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("fonts/gameFont.ttf")).deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, 12f);

        GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().registerFont(gameFnt);

        displayArea.setFont(gameFnt);

    } catch (IOException e) {

        e.printStackTrace();

    } catch(FontFormatException e) {

        e.printStackTrace();

    }

So after a really really huge headache, I got it working :)

Here's the code if anyone else is stuck on the same problem:

InputStream fontStream = Main.class.getResourceAsStream("/fonts/gameFont.ttf");

try {

    Font gameFont = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,fontStream);

    gameFont=gameFont.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, 14);

    displayArea.setFont(gameFont);

} catch (FontFormatException | IOException e) {

    e.printStackTrace();

}