When objects are drawn, they can use one of several custom fonts that control how the text will appear on the screen. Fonts of different sizes and typefaces can be used for indicating different conditions in the plant. The fonts are setup from a body of eight standard windows fonts, and with the custom fonts dialog box, the fonts can have different size and style aspects.

Fonts are created from a particular typeface (Courier, Helv, Tms Rmn etc), a size  (13, 16, 20 etc) and a style (bold, italic, underline). Thus by varying the typeface, size, and style, various fonts can be setup for the display of objects.

The eight standard windows fonts that the mimic program uses are-

 * items marked with an asterisk only have one size, however they are "continuously scalable" fonts, indicating that a specific size can be chosen for them and the font will be drawn at that size. The other fonts have fixed sizes and can only be drawn at that size.

Twenty six sample fonts are created by default when the program is first run, these are produced from the list above.

Font Construction:

Note: If an object has a font that is to big to be drawn inside the object, then the text will be clipped so that only what fits in the object rectangle will be drawn.