Use Custom Font in DrawText Wpf C#

Question

I have a custom OTF font in the Resources folder in my project which is not installed on my Windows. The Build Action of the font is already set to Resource.

Now I want to use DrawText method and FormattedText class to write some text on visual layer.

How can I use this custom font for the FormattedText. I already know how to do this say for a TextBlock in XAML using the below code. But what about code-behind?

<TextBlock FontFamily="pack://application:,,,/Resources/#Quicksand Light"> 
    StackOverflow
</TextBlock>

Here is the code I'm using to define my FormattedText object.

var f = new FontFamily("pack://application:,,,/Resources/#Quicksand Light");
var typeface = new Typeface(f, new FontStyle(), new FontWeight(), new FontStretch());
var cultureinfo = new CultureInfo("en-us");
var ft = new FormattedText("Stackoverflow", cultureinfo, FlowDirection.LeftToRight,
    typeface, 28, Brushes.White)
dc.DrawText(ft, new Point(0,0));

My problem is is defining the font for typeface so that I can use it in fotmattedtext.

user3449857 · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-02 16:07:57Z

4

Something like this:

var typeface = new Typeface(new FontFamily(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/"), "/Resources/#Quicksand Light"), FontStyles.Normal, FontWeights.Regular, FontStretches.Normal);

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 16:07

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