try{
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.shfarr.ui.plaf.fh.FhLookAndFeel");
}
catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

• The core of the appearance is a theme (may be a jar file or a directory) which contains the description for the main parts of the appearance,fonts, colors, borders, etc. The  laf comes with three builtin themes:one with a classic appearance, a flat one and a flat one with shadows.
• Uppon the theme, there are a series of immediate adjutsments to meke the theme suitable toeveryone:

1. text antialiasing
2. use a custom base color  to change the cromatics of the look and feel (independently form the theme)
   
3. saturation of the base color
4. confirm painting of textures
5. auto manage icons on buttons
   
6. make all fonts bold (as accessibility issue)
7. increase or decrease procentually the size of a fonts in the system (as accessibility issue)
8. change the brightness or contrast of the theapplication (as accessibility issue)
   

• A theme editor to make new themes or customize existing ones using the theme editor

The Colors

To keep the appearance of the look & feel consistent, the entier laf is based on a color palette which has two main parts: The base colors are 20 colors which are (lighter and darker) variations of a given base color. These base colors are not editable, they are generated automatically and may be changed by changing the base color.

The other part consits of a set of custom colors which are used to spice up the appearance. These can be edited or deleted, and new ones may be added. There are however two special custom colors which cannot be removed, the negative and positive color which represent the color to display the negative or positive tones specified in the laf: (for example cancel and ok).



The Fonts

To keep the fonts versatile but consistent, the laf defines a small set of fonts, each of them changable, such as: button fonts (for buttons, toggle buttons), menu fonts (for menus, menu items, ...) etc.



The Borders

In Fh Look & Feel each border is defined by a matrix or a set of matrices of colors defining different states of the componet, like in the following picture:




where each cell is a mapping to a color in the color palette. The borders should be defined using mainly the base colors in order to keep the consistency and use custom color to define special situations only such as the focus.

The border has a weight point which marks the neutral place in the matrix. The sides of the border are calculated according to this point:



where 1, 2, 3, 4 represents the four corners of the border, and 5, 6, 8, 7 represents the colors to be used to paint the sides of the borders.



The Textures

There are 3 kinds of texture available at the moment in the llok and feel: Gradient Texture, Matrix Texture, and Compound Texture.  Using these  and a set of mapped name, there can be defined the set of textured used bu the components of the Look & Feel.

java -jar fhlaf.jar

1. specifies the directory where the extra themes (other then the built in themes) are stored .
2. select the theme  to be used
3. description of the theme
4. create a new theme starting from one of the built in ones
5. start a new theme starting from the currently selected theme (use this if you wish to change some features in the current theme, such as fonts)

1. select this if you wish to use a base color different from the one specified by the theme
2. choos the desired custom color ( the color must to be arround the middle of the color scale [0..255] )
3. choose the chromatic saturation of the look and feel.
4. manage the button icons (automatically generate disabled, rolover, etc icons starting from the main icon)
5. enable/disable text antialiasing.
6. enable/disable the painting of textures on the large components (JPanel) if exists.
7. enable/disable the painting of texture on normal components
   

1. make all fonts bold.
2. adjust procetualy the size of  all fonts in the system.
3. adjust the brightness of the look & feel.
4. adjust the contrast of the look & feel.
   

1. select the item to edit
2. edit the item
3. save the palette (meta information)
4. revert the palette (in case it haven't been saved right before :)

1. select the color  to edit here (the variations of base color are not selctable, change them by changing the base color)
2. displays the selected color
3. the name of the selected color
4. choose another color for the key in (3)
   
5. adjust the alpha component
6. save the entier color palette
7. revert the palette
8. add /set the new value for the key
9. revert the value of the selected key to the one in the palette
10. remove the key (please make sure nothing referes the key)

1. select the font to be edited
2. choose another font (using fonts on your computer)
3. sample text
4. save the font palette
5. revert the font palette

1. choose the matrix cathegory to be edited (Borders)
2. choose the matrix cathegory to be edited (Textures)
3. choose a color from the color palette
4. displays the color's key (name)
5. choose the matrix to be edited
6. modify the matrix's height
   
7. modify the matrix's width
8. sample border (it shows the border as it is edited)
9. move the weightpoint horizontally
10. move the weightpoint vertically
11. save / revert palette, add / delete item

1. choose the matrix cathegory to be edited (Borders)
2. choose the matrix cathegory to be edited (Textures)
3. choose a color from the color palette
4. displays the color's key (name)
5. choose the matrix to be edited
6. modify the matrix's height
   
7. modify the matrix's width
8. texture sample (it shows the border as it is edited)
9. -
10. -
    
11. save / revert palette, add / delete item

1. choose the texture to be edited
2. choose the type of the texture
3. sample texture (on transparent background, and opaque background)
4. adjust the texture's rotation and add new elements to the texture table
5. -
6. -
7. -
8. -
9. -
10. list of elemets in the texture
11. save / revert palette, add / delete item