The Font.createFont() APIs returns a Font instance which must be used
via deriveFont APIs to get new instances and sizes.

ie all uses of it must look like
 try {
     Font f = Font.createFont(instream, Font.TRUETYPE_FONT);
     f = f.deriveFont(12f);
     graphics.setFont(f);
  } catch (FontFormatException e) {
  }
 and can not(!) be like

 try {
     Font f = Font.createFont(instream, Font.TRUETYPE_FONT);
     f = new Font(f.getFontName(), Font.PLAIN, 12);
     graphics.setFont(f);
  } catch (FontFormatException e) {
  }

Essentially these fonts live in a private name space.

There are use cases where this is limiting.
If you are utilising a package which reads font string names from some
source and uses new Font(..) with that name (or ill-advisedly uses getFont)
then this requires that the Font be an installed Font and not one created
via the createFont API.

This RFE requests that there be a supported mechanism for Fonts loaded
via createFont to be available via the Font construction APIs.

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