Loading a font directly from a file in C#

Question

Is there a way to do something like this?

FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily(\"C:/Projects/MyProj/free3of9.ttf\");

I\'ve tried a variety of

Answer 1

This piece of code works for me (WPF):

FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily(@"C:\#FONTNAME")

In your example, it would be:

FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily(@"C:\Projects\MyProj\#free3of9");

The font name without the file extension, and keep the '#' symbol.