Drawing a Paragraph of Text In order to change the font of the text, you need to supply an attributed string to the LineBreakMeasurer. See ``Drawing Text with Mixed Styles'' for an example. public void drawParagraph(Graphics2D g, String paragraph, float width) { LineBreakMeasurer linebreaker = new LineBreakMeasurer( new AttributedString(paragraph).getIterator(), g.getFontRenderContext()); float y = 0.0f; while (linebreaker.getPosition() < paragraph.length()) { TextLayout tl = linebreaker.nextLayout(width); y += tl.getAscent(); tl.draw(g, 0, y); y += tl.getDescent() + tl.getLeading(); } }