Hi Robert, > I am not sure where this comes from but I find that our Free Swing apps look > very neat. Is there something special with our fonts?!? Yes. In constrast to Sun's JDK, we use the system fonts and the system font settings, which is normally antialiased and optimized for LCD when running on lcd screen. Sun paints its fonts un-anti-aliased thus looks quite bad. However, you can turn on font-antialiasing using the RenderingHints class. It's a bit tricky to do this application wide though... (on the downside, I think classpath ignores the RenderingHints altogether). /Roman
