1. place the following string somewhere in your "stdafx.h" file:

#include <afxpriv.h>

2. override DoModal() function in your dialog class:

int CSimpleDialog::DoModal()
{
   CDialogTemplate dlt;
   int             nResult;

   // load dialog template
   if (!dlt.Load(MAKEINTRESOURCE(CSimpleDialog::IDD))) return -1;

   // set your own font, for example "Arial", 10 pts.
   dlt.SetFont("Arial", 10);

   // get pointer to the modified dialog template
   LPSTR pdata = (LPSTR)GlobalLock(dlt.m_hTemplate);

   // let MFC know that you are using your own template
   m_lpszTemplateName = NULL;
   InitModalIndirect(pdata);

   // display dialog box
   nResult = CDialog::DoModal();

   // unlock memory object
   GlobalUnlock(dlt.m_hTemplate);

   return nResult;
}

It may be reasonable to choose a font for your dialog box according to user-specified schemes (those in Control Panel / Display / Appearance). Unfortunately I was unable to find any simple ways to get font settings for the dialog boxes. A possible alternative is to use font settings for icon titles and some related controls (like tree and list controls), that can be retrieved by SystemParametersInfo() function. Here is a simple procedure that returns the face name and the size in points for this font:

void GetSystemIconFont(CString& strFontName,int& nPointSize)
{
   LOGFONT lf;

   // get LOGFONT structure for the icon font
   SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETICONTITLELOGFONT,sizeof(LOGFONT),&lf,0);

   // getting number of pixels per logical inch
   // along the display height
COLOR="#990000">
   HDC hDC    = ::GetDC(NULL);
   int nLPixY = GetDeviceCaps(hDC, LOGPIXELSY);
   ::ReleaseDC(NULL,hDC);

   // copy font parameters
   nPointSize  = -MulDiv(lf.lfHeight,72,nLPixY);
   strFontName = lf.lfFaceName;
}

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