Automatically install a custom font in javafx

Question

I have developed a javafx application, in which I want to make use of a custom font. I will use the font just once in the following button:

gui.SanswerButton1.setStyle("-fx-font: 80 Symbola;-fx-base: #17499F;");

What I want is to add this custom font automatically in every machine that runs my javafx application. How is this possible to happen?

Answer 1

You better ship the font with your application jar and then you have 2 options:

• if you use CSS use @font-face { font-family: Symbola; src: url('Symbola.ttf'); } @font-face { font-family: Symbola; src: url('Symbola.ttf'); }
• if you don't use CSS load the font at application startup with Font.loadFont