.. highlightlang:: us

.. index:: Overview Fonts, Fonts 

.. _overview-fonts:

Overview Fonts
==============

Fonts contain attributes like font name, size, color etc. Fonts can be used for 
text objects, axes titles etc.

.. us.example

**Example**

The following example sets the font for the diagram axes and titles to 12pt, 
"Times New Roman" in red.

::

   // Create sinus curve
   x = linspace(0,2*PI,100)
   y = sin(x)
   h = plot(x, y)
   // plot returns a vector with three elements.
   // The second element is the diagram handle.
   // Retrieve x axis font:
   hFont = LayerGetAxisTitleFont(h[2], "X");
   // Set attributes:
   FontSetHeight(hFont, 12);
   FontSetFaceName(hFont, "Times New Roman");
   FontSetColorRGB(hFont, [255,0,0]);
   // Set font
   LayerSetAxisTitleFont(h[2], "X", hFont);
   LayerSetAxisTitleFont(h[2], "Y", hFont);
   LayerSetAxisLabelFont(h[2], "X", hFont);
   LayerSetAxisLabelFont(h[2], "Y", hFont);
   // Destroy font
   // LayerGetAxisTitleFont returned a copy of a font.
   FontDestroy(hFont)

.. us.indexlist CreateandDestroyFontCreateFontDialogFont,Create and Destroy,FontCreate,FontDialog,FontDestroy,

.. include:: ../ftab/CreateandDestroyFontCreateFontDialogFont.ftab

.. us.makeindex   FontSet, Set Functions

.. include:: ../ftab/FontSet.ftab

.. us.makeindex   FontGet, Get Functions

.. include:: ../ftab/FontGet.ftab

.. seealso::
   :ref:`functions-by-categories`

:sub:`id-186060`