Around 7 o'clock on Feb 27, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not an expert, but I don't think Qt has a way of not specifying a > family. If you try to create a QFont without a name it uses > QApplication::font which is set to "Helvetica" by default. Then just use the generic family name 'monospace' instead of 'fixed' if you can. 'monospace', 'monospace' matches the same fonts as 'monospace'... -keith