This demonstration is a poetry reader - the applet uses GraphicFont to load up different bitmaps encoded in the GraphicFont format and use them as fonts. Click on a poem title to read it. Click on the square with the F to change fonts - notice how you can use antialiased as well as non-antialiased bitmaps. Drag on the poem to scroll it.

The applet makes use of the functions in the class that allow the rendering of text strings and blocks with different foreground and background colors.

Bugs: As you can see, the rendering time is a little slow. Hopefully it would be possible to speed up the code.
There may be a faint gray line to the bottom and right of the applet. This is a Netscape Java bug.
There are probably some dithered color artifacts around some of the fonts. This appears to be a strange Java color problem.
When using different colors for font foregrounds and background (other than the predefined Java ones), they may be dithered badly. This may be a Netscape and/or Java problem, or some better color hacking code needs to be written.