Styled text is essentially a simple text string drawn with a font.
The font defines the text string size, and its overall look and feel. This lesson describes how to use the enhanced java.awt.Font class to create fonts. The next lesson explains how to use fonts to create and draw styled text. A font is a complete set of type in one point size and type face. For example, all English language characters and symbols in Helvetica 10 point bold face make up a font.