STYLE — Text Style

Creates and modifies text styles.

• Command: STYLE · Global name: _STYLE · Alias: ST, DDSTYLE
• Ribbon: Annotate › Text
• Menu: Format

Creates, modifies and deletes text styles, and sets the current one. A text style holds the font, an optional fixed height, the width factor and the oblique angle; it is used by TEXT, MTEXT, dimensions and tables.

Usage

1. Enter STYLE (or ST) or click Text Style on the ribbon. The Text Style dialog box opens.
2. Choose a style in the Styles: list. Its values are shown on the right.
3. Change the values and click Apply to save them in the style.

Controls

• Font Name: the font, chosen from the list (the Windows TrueType and OpenType fonts, and the AutoCAD SHX fonts if AutoCAD is installed).
• or type the font: the font file name, typed (txt.shx, arial.ttf).
• Height: fixed height of the style. With 0, TEXT and MTEXT ask for the height of each text.
• Width Factor: 1 is the normal width; less than 1 narrows the characters and more than 1 widens them.
• Oblique Angle: slant of the characters, between -85° and 85°.
• Annotative: new texts with this style are created annotative: the height is the paper height and they are shown at the current annotation scale (CANNOSCALE). Existing texts do not change.
• Set Current: new texts will use the selected style.
• New...: creates a copy of the selected style; type the name in Style Name: and click OK.
• Delete: deletes the selected style. Standard, the current style and styles used by texts, attributes or dimension styles cannot be deleted.
• Apply: saves the changes to font, height, width and angle (enabled only when there are changes).

Notes

• The current style is stored in the TEXTSTYLE variable.
• The font file name is stored, as AutoCAD does.

See also

TEXT · MTEXT · DIMSTYLE · Text and styles