I am trying to change the menu font in a Java application (OmegaT http://www.omegat.org). However, when I change the default menu font in Windows 7 64-bit (under \"Advanced App
I deleted FNTCACHE.DAT in my system32 directory and rebooted, and it seemed to fix it. Weird.
http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/49179-windows-7-64-bit-fonts-not-shown-4.html
so I guess it was a Windows issue and not Java at all.