Reputation: 3468

How to include external font in WPF application without installing it

I tried this code

  System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection privateFonts = new    System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection();
  privateFonts.AddFontFile("C:\\Documents and Settings\\somefont.ttf");
  System.Drawing.Font font = new Font(privateFonts.Families[0], 12);
  this.label1.Font = font;

It working correctly in Windows Form Application but not in WPF.

Upvotes: 92

Answers (14)

henon

Reputation: 2501

If you want to load and use a font programatically in code behind, directly referencing a font directory in any location works too:

var fontDir="C:\\Users\\WhoAmI\\Documents\\Media\\fonts\\Roboto";
var fontName="Roboto";
var fontFamily = new FontFamily(new Uri($"file:///{fontDir}"), $"{fontDir}/#{fontName}");

Note that the name of the directory is irrelevant but you have to use the correct font name for it to work.

Contents of the directory:

Roboto-Black.ttf
Roboto-BlackItalic.ttf
Roboto-Bold.ttf
Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf
Roboto-Italic.ttf
Roboto-Light.ttf
Roboto-LightItalic.ttf
Roboto-Medium.ttf
Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf
Roboto-Regular.ttf
Roboto-Thin.ttf
Roboto-ThinItalic.ttf

Upvotes: 0

MovGP0

Reputation: 7765

There are two ways of doing this: One way is to package the fonts inside the application. The other way is to have the fonts in a folder. The difference is mostly the URI you need to load the files with.

Package with Application

Add a /Fonts folder to your solution.
Add the True Type Fonts (*.ttf) files to that folder
Include the files to the project
Select the fonts and add them to the solution

Set BuildAction: Resource and Copy To Output Directory: Do not copy. Your .csproj file should now have a section like this one:

  <ItemGroup>
   <Resource Include="Fonts\NotoSans-Bold.ttf" />
   <Resource Include="Fonts\NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf" />
   <Resource Include="Fonts\NotoSans-Italic.ttf" />
   <Resource Include="Fonts\NotoSans-Regular.ttf" />
   <Resource Include="Fonts\NotoSansSymbols-Regular.ttf" />
 </ItemGroup>

In App.xaml add <FontFamily> resources. It should look like in the following code sample. Note that the URI doesn't contain the filename when packing with the application.

 <Applicaton ...>
 <Application.Resources>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSans">pack://application:,,,/Fonts/#Noto Sans</FontFamily>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSansSymbols">pack://application:,,,/Fonts/#Noto Sans Symbols</FontFamily>
 </Application.Resources>
 </Application>

Apply your fonts like this:

 <TextBlock x:Name="myTextBlock" Text="foobar" FontFamily="{StaticResource NotoSans}" 
            FontSize="10.0" FontStyle="Normal" FontWeight="Regular" />

You can also set the font imperatively:

 myTextBlock.FontFamily = new FontFamily(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/"), "./Fonts/#Noto Sans");

Copy to Output Directory

Add a /Fonts folder to your solution.
Add the True Type Fonts (*.ttf) files to that order
Include the files to the project
Select the fonts and add them to the solution

Set BuildAction: Content and Copy To Output Directory: Copy if newer or Copy always. Your .csproj file should now have a section like this one:

  <ItemGroup>
   <Content Include="Fonts\NotoSans-Bold.ttf">
     <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
   </Content>
   <Content Include="Fonts\NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf">
     <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
   </Content>
   <Content Include="Fonts\NotoSans-Italic.ttf">
     <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
   </Content>
   <Content Include="Fonts\NotoSans-Regular.ttf">
     <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
   </Content>
   <Content Include="Fonts\NotoSansSymbols-Regular.ttf">
     <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
   </Content>
 </ItemGroup>

In App.xaml add <FontFamily> resources. It should look like in the following code sample.

 <Applicaton ...>
 <Application.Resources>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSansRegular">./Fonts/NotoSans-Regular.ttf#Noto Sans</FontFamily>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSansItalic">./Fonts/NotoSans-Italic.ttf#Noto Sans</FontFamily>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSansBold">./Fonts/NotoSans-Bold.ttf#Noto Sans</FontFamily>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSansBoldItalic">./Fonts/NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf#Noto Sans</FontFamily>
     <FontFamily x:Key="NotoSansSymbols">./Fonts/NotoSans-Regular.ttf#Noto Sans Symbols</FontFamily>
 </Application.Resources>
 </Application>

Apply your fonts like this:

 <TextBlock Text="foobar" FontFamily="{StaticResource NotoSansRegular}" 
            FontSize="10.0" FontStyle="Normal" FontWeight="Regular" />

References

MSDN: Packaging Fonts with Applications

Upvotes: 209

NoWar

Reputation: 37633

The best answer to this question I found here

http://geekswithblogs.net/Martinez/archive/2010/01/29/custom-font-in-wpf-application.aspx

SOLUTION It involves using even more wicked string than before but works as expected:

<Label FontFamily="pack://application:,,,/Folder1/#Katana Sans">Text</Label>

Where is Folder1 is a folder of your project where you keep a TTF file. Three notes at the end:

‘Katana Sans’ is the name of the font, not the name of the file. This is significant difference. To get the name of the font simply click the file twice. Note that spaces are included without any changes in this string.
Remember to put the hash sign ‘#’ in front of font name. It will not work otherwise.
Custom font may also be added to the project with ‘Build Action’ set to ‘Content’. This is not recommended approach however and for the sake of simplicity I ignored this possibility.

Some extra links

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753303(v=vs.100).aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296385.aspx

Upvotes: 25

nrod

Reputation: 398

Although the solution from @movgp0 worked at first, it failed when I wanted a Bold text. By searching a bit more online I found the following solution that works in all cases:

<Application.Resources>
  <FontFamily x:Key="FiraSansBold">Fonts/FiraSansCondensed-Bold.ttf#Fira Sans Condensed</FontFamily>
  <FontFamily x:Key="FiraSansBoldItalic">Fonts/FiraSansCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf#Fira Sans Condensed</FontFamily>
  <FontFamily x:Key="FiraSansItalic">Fonts/FiraSansCondensed-Italic.ttf#Fira Sans Condensed</FontFamily>
  <FontFamily x:Key="FiraSans">Fonts/FiraSansCondensed-Regular.ttf#Fira Sans Condensed</FontFamily>
</Application.Resources>

Usage: <Label FontFamily="{StaticResource FiraSansBold}">SomeBoldedLabel</Label>

Upvotes: 3

Dude4

Reputation: 163

Kind of, Really easy:

<TextBlock x:Name="lblTitle" FontSize="24" Margin="256,25,178,289" Text="gg" FontFamily="/FontTest;component/#Arvo"></TextBlock>

When you import a font, vs will gonna include it in font list😊.

Upvotes: 0

Saghachi

Reputation: 945

The easiest way to include external fonts is to

Step 1. Create the folder Fonts And add your fonts into it.

Step 2. Set Build action to content and Copy to Output Directory to Copy always.

Step 3. Build the Solution to update it with the Font directory.

Step 4. Use the font in your elements using FontFamily="Fonts/#font name"

All Done!

Thanks to cscience !

Upvotes: 13

DAkbariSE

Reputation: 133

You need to add fonts as resource item

according to the link; you may add your desired font as application resource file by following these steps:

copy your font file to anywhere in your project in most cases resource files is copied into a folder named "resources" if you want to follow this, create new folder in your project and name it as "resources" then copy your font file which is usually have ttf or otf format into that folder
then you need to declare this file as a resource file for doing so you have two options:
1. right click on your font file, select properties (or press F4 after selecting it) and then change "Build Action" to "Resource"
2. go into your projects directory edit project-name.csproj file and the following tag:
```
<ItemGroup>            
    <Resource Include="resources\<font-file-name>.ttf" />  
</ItemGroup>```
```

finally within you application you may set font-family property like this:

FontFamily="./Resources/Fonts/#<font-name>"

be careful 'font-name' is different from font-file-name you may open font file and check for font name property (in Microsoft Window)

Upvotes: 2

Moslem Shahsavan

Reputation: 1337

First) Copy fonts to project folder like /Resources/Fonts/ and set font-properties -> Build Action:Resource

Second) Used on code

FontFamily="/AssemblyNamespace;component/Resources/Fonts/IranSans/#IRANSansWeb Medium"

Upvotes: 4

Eric Unger

Reputation: 1

I was trying to get this to work as well with a different font, it only worked for me in this format with the ./Fonts

<FontFamily x:Key="NotoSans">pack://application:,,,./Fonts/#Noto Sans</FontFamily>

Upvotes: 0

Bimo

Reputation: 6587

Here's What Worked for me:

(1) Add Directory to project: font

(2) Move ttf font file into font directory

(3) Add ttf font file to project

(4) Set the "Build" Property of the tff font file to "Resource" (Note: I used "Resource" instead of "Embedded Resource" in the combobox selection.)

(5) Open the Window where you are using the font and make the following changes:

<Window ... >
    <Window.Resources>
        <FontFamily x:Key="YourFontNickName">
        pack://application:,,,/font/#NameOfFont
        <!-- Note: NameOfFont can be font by double clicking
             on font from explorer and writing down name
             of the font reported.  Its not the same
             as the file name -->
        </FontFamily>   
    </Window.Resources>


    <!-- Use font as Xaml -->
    <StackPanel>
        <Textblock FontFamily="{StaticResource YourFontNickName}">
        This is a test
        </Testblock>
        <Textblock Name="text1"/>
    </StackPanel>
...
</Window>

(6) If you want to change the font from code. Do this:

public partial class Window1 : Window {

    // Use font as C# Code
    public void UpdateText1() {

            text1.Text      = "Hi There";
            FontFamily ff   = this.Resources["YourFontNickName"] 
                                as FontFamily;
            if (ff == null) {
                Messagebox.Show("Wrong Font Name", "ERROR");
                return;
            }
            text1.FontFamily = ff;
            text1.FontSize   = 30;
    }

    ...
}

Upvotes: 3

Steve Parish

Reputation: 1874

I have a fonts folder inside an assets folder in my project. At build time it will copy those fonts into the folder as content. Then I can simply use the following XAML to use the FontAwesome font to have an icon on my button.

<Button Content="&#xf0c9;" FontFamily="./assets/fonts/#FontAwesome">

Upvotes: 2

Wagner Bertolini Junior

Reputation: 1200

I did not found any answer for exactly that. But I found a solution that I did not saw on Internet.

I followed a recommendation of doing a folder and marking all the files inside as Resources. But I needed to enumerate them, and that was my main problem, because I need to load all to my screen without recording the name somewhere. I just want to simple drop another font to that folder and list it.

I found this as a solution to list all the files inside my resources/fonts folder

Fonts.GetFontFamilies(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/resources/fonts/#"))

I expect it to help you organize your fonts.

Upvotes: 11

Tharindu

Reputation: 101

I use xaml for this

<Window

 FontFamily ="./Fonts/#somefont"

>

I included the font file inside the "Fonts" folder

Upvotes: 4

Pavlo Hermanov

Reputation: 492

I use such XAML code:

<Style x:Key="Hatten">
        <Setter Property="TextElement.FontFamily" Value="Resources/#HATTEN" />
</Style>

#HATTEN - reference to hatten.tft in Resources.

Using the Style:

 <TextBlock x:Name="lblTitle" Style="{DynamicResource Hatten}" FontSize="72"></TextBlock>

Upvotes: 35

How to include external font in WPF application without installing it

Answers (14)

Package with Application

Copy to Output Directory

References

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