Array of all the systems fonts and font colors.

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Hi all,

I am just wondering if anybody knows of a convenient way to get all the names of fonts and font colors in two different arrays.

I am attempting to make a text editor using win32 C/C++ and I would like to display all the fonts and font colors in a combo boxes.

Thanks for your time,
robNO.

Posted 30-Nov-11 9:42am

RobNO

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Fonts don't have colours they are merely shapes. When displaying characters on a device context you set the colours using the RGB macro selected from this information[^].

Posted 30-Nov-11 12:03pm

Richard MacCutchan

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RobNO 1-Dec-11 14:47pm

Is it possible to get a standard set of colors programatically rather than hardcodding colors? For example, the Standard HTML Colors in your link in some sort of container.

Richard MacCutchan 2-Dec-11 4:36am

I'm not aware of any Windows function that does that. Whenever I have needed such a list I've created it from the HTML set which are published in various places as found here by Google.

RobNO 2-Dec-11 16:36pm

Thanks For your Help!!!

robNO.

[no name] 3-Dec-11 18:35pm

Hi,

I have updated my answer to #include some information about color depth and safe color palettes.

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

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**`Randor`** · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-30T10:41:00

Hi,

You can enumerate fonts by using the EnumFontFamilies function[^] and supplying an EnumFontFamProc callback function[^].

or

On Windows Vista SP2 and above you could use the IDWriteFontCollection[^]. Font Enumeration Sample[^].

[Update 03, December, 2011]
Sorry, I forgot about the color part of the question. You could use the GetSystemPaletteEntries function[^] to retrieve the system palette associated with the device context... but realistically... this is a non-issue in the year 2011.

Browser Display Statistics[^] : 97% of the world is capable of displaying 24+ bits of color.

If you want to support the remaining 3% you should read some old articles such as: Colors: The Safety Palette[^] (Notice the date of 1996)

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune