How do I change the font of all my tooltips?

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How do I change the font of all my tooltips?

You can make a global change to the appearance of several components by using the UIManager class.
To change the font of your ToolTips, set the key ToolTip.font to your desired font.

The easiest way to change the font of only one of your tooltips is to use HTML tags.

Here's an example of both:

Main.java:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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