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Creates a Font object.

fontObject = CreateFont(name)
Arguments

string - Globally-accessible name to be assigned for use as _G["name"]
Returns

fontObject
Font🔗 - Reference to the new font object.
Details

Font objects, similar to XML <Font> elements, may be used to create a common font pattern assigned to several widgets via FontInstance:SetFontObject(fontObject).
Subsequently changing the font object will affect the text displayed on every widget it was assigned to.
Since the new font object is created without any properties, it should be initialized via FontInstance:SetFont(path, height [, flags]) or Font:CopyFontObject(otherFont).