Setting font on the label of JTabbedPane tabs

I want to change the font of a tab in a JTabbedPane if the tab is selected. Is there a way of doing this? I have tried
Font f = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 12);
UIManager.put("JTabbedPane.selectHighlight", f);
and doesn't seem to help.
thanks.

I would suspect that selectHighlight is not a color property, not a font property. It might not have separate fonts for selected tabs. JTabbedPane is seriously lacking in several ways. There are other, better tabbed pane implementations out there.
Generally, though, you'd probably have to create your own tabbed pane UI class to get the effect you want.

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