Java: Altering UI fonts (Nimbus) doesn't work!

Question

I\'m referring to this Nimbus reference.

I tried to set global Font to be slightly larger:

UIManager.put(\"defaultFont\", new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF,         


        

Answer 1

The nimbus defaults are lazy created so setting 'defaultFont' before the screen is painted, will add the font to the parent defaults, and not to the nimbus defaults.

Workaround: force nimbus to initialize the defaults and set then the defaults:

NimbusLookAndFeel laf = new NimbusLookAndFeel();
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf);
laf.getDefaults().put("defaultFont", new Font("Monospaced", Font.BOLD, 12));

Note: this code is more efficient then overriding getDefaults(), as suggested above.