I'm looking for the list of "safe" font families to use in a WPF application - font families that should be installed on all clients machines capable of running WPF. Silverlight has a well defined list of such (listed on MSDN it comes with 25 fonts such as Arial, Arial Black, Calibri etc).
Is there such a list for WPF or will I have to embed custom fonts to make sure all users of the application will see the same font type?
There is a way simpler way to list all the default fonts.
using System.Windows.Media;
//...
//Somewhere inside the window's class (e.g. constructor)
var fontList = Fonts.SystemFontFamilies;
You can also then bind this to a ComboBox like so:
//...Inside of window constructor
this.DataContext = fontList
Here you can find more details: http://vbcity.com/blogs/xtab/archive/2009/11/30/wpf-how-to-list-select-and-apply-fonts.aspx