# Simple system font loading
**URL:** https://forum.juce.com/t/simple-system-font-loading/6909
**Category:** General JUCE discussion
**Created:** [May 23, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/simple-system-font-loading/6909 "2011-05-23T16:43:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@a3naon](https://forum.juce.com/u/a3naon)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/simple-system-font-loading/6909/1 "2011-05-23T16:43:39Z")
Hi All,
congrats for the active juce community and the project in general…! I am a newbie to juce and I wanted some guidance / directions if possible – I want to load a system font in my app and do some text rendering afterwards but I am a bit confused with the route that I should choose… I am aware of the fact that with the old juce API you could just use the
Typeface constructor in order to load and initialize all the glyphs from a named system font …` Typeface (const String& faceName,
const bool bold,
const bool italic);`
I wanted to ask what would be the best approach to achieve the same thing now that Typeface is abstract… I already had a look at the CustomTypeface class but still I am not sure what would be the way to go with the specific class …
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/simple-system-font-loading/6909/2 "2011-05-23T16:51:44Z")
You don’t need to use the Typeface class directly - for system fonts you can just use the Font class’s constructor to select one.
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### Author:  [@a3naon](https://forum.juce.com/u/a3naon)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/simple-system-font-loading/6909/3 "2011-05-23T17:07:37Z")
Thanks for the quick response Jules!
I ll try the Font class then and see how it goes…
Thanx again!!