Hello.
Currently discovering JavaFX (using 1.8.0_25-b18),I saw that there is no way to "derive" a font, as could be done in AWT. In AWT, if you load "FreeMono.ttf", you get a non-bold font by default, but using font.deriveFont(font.BOLD, 1.0f) you can obtain a bold version of it. In JavaFX, there is no way to obtain a bold version of "FreeMono.ttf".The best you can do is to load "FreeMonoBold.ttf" and then callFont.load("FreeMono", FontWeight.BOLD, 1.0), but the resulting lookis quite different than AWT's bold FreeMono.ttf. ===> Are there plans to add font derivation in JavaFX, so that fonts of various styles can be obtained from a same ".ttf" file, or will it stay as this? Now code to reproduce a bug : ### BEGIN import javafx.scene.text.Font; public class JavaFXCMEOnFontReload { public static void main(String[] args) { /* * java.runtime.version=1.8.0_25-b18 */ // download: http://www.fonts2u.com/download/free-monospaced.font final String urlStr = "file:src/bugz/FreeMono.ttf"; final String initialFontFamily = "AngsanaUPC"; System.out.println("font(" + initialFontFamily + ")..."); Font.font(initialFontFamily); for (int k=0;k<2;k++) { System.out.println("loadFont(" + urlStr + ")..."); final Font font = Font.loadFont(urlStr, 1.0); if (font == null) { throw new AssertionError("could not load " + urlStr); } System.out.println("font(" + font.getFamily() + ")..."); Font.font(font.getFamily()); } } } ### END Output:font(AngsanaUPC)... loadFont(file:src/bugz/FreeMono.ttf)... font(FreeMono)... loadFont(file:src/bugz/FreeMono.ttf)... Exception in thread "main" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextNode(HashMap.java:1429) at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:1453) at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontFactory.removeEmbeddedFont(PrismFontFactory.java:1550) at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontFactory.loadEmbeddedFont(PrismFontFactory.java:1644) at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontFactory.loadEmbeddedFont(PrismFontFactory.java:1525) at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontLoader.loadFont(PrismFontLoader.java:99) at javafx.scene.text.Font.loadFont(Font.java:400) at bugz.JavaFXCMEOnFontReload.main(JavaFXCMEOnFontReload.java:18) -Jeff