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Work with Text Styles
When you enter text into your drawing, the current text style determines the
text font, size, angle, orientation, and other text characteristics.
Overview of Text Styles
All text in an AutoCAD drawing has a text style associated with it. When you
enter text, AutoCAD uses the current text style, which sets the font, size,
angle, orientation, and other text characteristics. If you want to create text
using a different text style, you can make another text style current. The
example shows the settings for the STANDARD text style.
The settings for the current text style are displayed at the prompts on the
command line. You can use or modify the current text style or create and
load a new text style. Once you've created a text style, you can modify its
characteristics, change its name, or delete it when you no longer need it.
Text style settings
Setting Default Description
Style name STANDARD Name with up to 255 characters
Font name txt.shx File associated with a font (character style)
Big Font none Special shape definition file used for a non-ASCII
character set, such as Kanji
Height 0 Character height
Width factor 1 Expansion or compression of the characters
Obliquing angle 0 Slant of the characters
Backwards No Backwards text
Upside down No Upside-down text
Vertical No Vertical or horizontal text