Changing the fonts used by the look and feel?

I want to be able to change the font settings for the program I'm writing. Is there any way to do this without writing my own theme and/or LookAndFeel? For example, is there a way to just use the Nimbus Look & Feel, but override the fonts it uses somehow? I've been browsing around and it seems like most solutions are to write your own theme from scratch, which I'd like to avoid if possible (I don't want to change anything else, just the fonts!).
Any help or guidance is very much appreciated. Please let me know if I was unclear.

Thank you both for the links. I realize I didn't ask this initially, and you both answered the question I asked, but I'm actually curious if there's a way to do this consistently across different looks and feels. Just some sort of blanket command that, regardless of what the Look and Feel is, overrides font selections. Perhaps I'm looking for a way to override the mappings of logical fonts? I'm not exactly sure how one would accomplish it.
I don't do this because I want to force the user into using a specific font, but actually I'm trying to add a feature that allows the user to override the Look & Feel's font choices with their own if they so choose.
But I can't control what Look and Feel they're using (well, I can, but I have chosen not to).
Does any of that make sense?
Edited by: Caryy on Sep 21, 2010 11:22 AM

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