Using text labels in Swing

Dear all,
I would like to mention that I am new to Java and Swing. I have been looking for hours in the forums, but cannot find a solution for my problem.
When using Swing as GUI, my labels get ugly when trying to get a bigger or different font than the standard one.
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
Thank you in advance,
Dimitri Depaepe

Never noticed a problem.
If you need further help then you need to create a [url http://homepage1.nifty.com/algafield/sscce.html]Short, Self Contained, Compilable and Executable, Example Program (SSCCE) that demonstrates the incorrect behaviour, because I can't guess exactly what you are doing based on the information provided.
And don't forget to use the [url http://forum.java.sun.com/help.jspa?sec=formatting]Code Formatting Tags so the code retains its original formatting.

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