Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Embedding Fonts in a Silverlight App Using Blend

In a previous post I talked about how when you install the Silverlight runtime on the client it only installs with a subset of fonts, and if you want to use a font that isn’t part of the default package you have to add it to your project.

Now you can easily do this by adding the font file by going Add>Existing Item, but I stumbled on a built in Font Manager feature of Blend that makes this much easier.
Go to Tools and click Font Manager…

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This brings up the font manager dialog, which gives you a font browser to select the fonts you want included in your application.