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| [How can I interact with standard C++ types (such as std::string and std::vector)?](#q-how-can-i-interact-with-standard-c-types-such-as-stdstring-and-stdvector) |
| [How can I interact with standard C++ types (such as std::string and std::vector)?](#q-how-can-i-interact-with-standard-c-types-such-as-stdstring-and-stdvector) |
| [How can I display custom shapes? (using low-level ImDrawList API)](#q-how-can-i-display-custom-shapes-using-low-level-imdrawlist-api) |
| [How can I display custom shapes? (using low-level ImDrawList API)](#q-how-can-i-display-custom-shapes-using-low-level-imdrawlist-api) |
| **Q&A: Fonts, Text** |
| **Q&A: Fonts, Text** |
| [How should I handle DPi in my application?](#q-how-should-i-handle-dpi-in-my-application) |
| [How can I load a different font than the default?](#q-how-can-i-load-a-different-font-than-the-default) |
| [How can I load a different font than the default?](#q-how-can-i-load-a-different-font-than-the-default) |
| [How can I easily use icons in my application?](#q-how-can-i-easily-use-icons-in-my-application) |
| [How can I easily use icons in my application?](#q-how-can-i-easily-use-icons-in-my-application) |
| [How can I load multiple fonts?](#q-how-can-i-load-multiple-fonts) |
| [How can I load multiple fonts?](#q-how-can-i-load-multiple-fonts) |
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# Q&A: Fonts, Text
# Q&A: Fonts, Text
### Q: How should I handle DPI in my application?
The short answer is: obtain the desired DPI scale, load a suitable font resized with that scale (always round down font size to nearest integer), and scale your Style structure accordingly using `style.ScaleAllSizes()`.
Your application may want to detect DPI change and reload the font and reset style being frames.
Your ui code should avoid using hardcoded constants for size and positioning. Prefer to express values as multiple of reference values such as `ImGui::GetFontSize()` or `ImGui::GetFrameHeight()`. So e.g. instead of seeing a hardcoded height of 500 for a given item/window, you may want to use `30*ImGui::GetFontSize()` instead.
Down the line Dear ImGui will provide a variety of standardized reference values to facilitate using this.
Applications in the `examples/` folder are not DPI aware partly because they are unable to load a custom font from the file-system (may change that in the future).
The reason DPI is not auto-magically solved in stock examples is that we don't yet have a satisfying solution for the "multi-dpi" problem (using the `docking` branch: when multiple viewport windows are over multiple monitors using different DPI scale). The current way to handle this on the application side is:
- Create and maintain one font atlas per active DPI scale (e.g. by iterating `platform_io.Monitors[]` before `NewFrame()`).
- Hook `platform_io.OnChangedViewport()` to detect when a `Begin()` call makes a Dear ImGui window change monitor (and therefore DPI).
- In the hook: swap atlas, swap style with correctly sized one, remap the current font from one atlas to the other (may need to maintain a remapping table of your fonts at variying DPI scale).
This approach is relatively easy and functional but come with two issues:
- It's not possibly to reliably size or position a window ahead of `Begin()` without knowing on which monitor it'll land.
- Style override may be lost during the `Begin()` call crossing monitor boundaries. You may need to do some custom scaling mumbo-jumbo if you want your `OnChangedViewport()` handler to preserve style overrides.
Please note that if you are not using multi-viewports with multi-monitors using different DPI scale, you can ignore all of this and use the simpler technique recommended at the top.
### Q: How can I load a different font than the default?
### Q: How can I load a different font than the default?
Use the font atlas to load the TTF/OTF file you want:
Use the font atlas to load the TTF/OTF file you want:
If you get an assert stating "Could not load font file!", your font filename is likely incorrect. Read "[About filenames](#about-filenames)" carefully.
If you get an assert stating "Could not load font file!", your font filename is likely incorrect. Read "[About filenames](#about-filenames)" carefully.
**Load multiple fonts:**
**Load multiple fonts:**
```cpp
```cpp
ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();
ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();
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ImGui::PopFont();
ImGui::PopFont();
```
```
**For advanced options create a ImFontConfig structure and pass it to the AddFont() function (it will be copied internally):**
**For advanced options create a ImFontConfig structure and pass it to the AddFont() function (it will be copied internally):**