How to Find All Installed Fonts

The InstalledFontCollection class allows you to retrieve information about currently installed fonts. The following code shows a form that iterates through the font collection when it's first created. Every time it finds a font, it creates a new label that will display the font name in the given font face (at a size of 14 point). The label is added to a scrollable panel, allowing the user to scroll through the list of available fonts.

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Text;

public class ListFonts : System.Windows.Forms.Form {

    private System.Windows.Forms.Panel pnlFonts;

    // (Designer code omitted.)

    private void ListFonts_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
    
        // Create the font collection.
        InstalledFontCollection fontFamilies = new InstalledFontCollection();
            
        // Iterate through all font families.
        int offset = 10;
        foreach (FontFamily family in fontFamilies.Families) {
        
            try {
            
                // Create a label that will display text in this font.
                Label fontLabel = new Label();
                fontLabel.Text = family.Name;
                fontLabel.Font = new Font(family, 14);
                fontLabel.Left = 10;
                fontLabel.Width = pnlFonts.Width;
                fontLabel.Top = offset;

                // Add the label to a scrollable panel.
                pnlFonts.Controls.Add(fontLabel);
                offset += 30;
            
           }catch {
            
                // An error will occur if the selected font does
                // not support normal style (the default used when
                // creating a Font object). This problem can be
                // harmlessly ignored.
            }
        }
    }
}