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I'm trying to build a data grid where one of the columns is a font name displayed in that font. Previously, I was working with a list box where I had defined the following template: <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" FontFamily="{Binding Path=Name}"/> This worked just fine. So, I tweaked the data structure (Name became Font.Name) and moved onto a data grid to try this: <dg:DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding Font.Name}" FontFamily="{Binding Font.Name}" IsReadOnly="True" Header="Font"/> Now the font names are all displayed in the default font, and I get this error: System.Windows.Data Error: 2 : Cannot find governing FrameworkElement or FrameworkContentElement for target element. BindingExpression:Path=Font.Name; DataItem=null; target element is 'DataGridTextColumn' (HashCode=56915998); target property is 'FontFamily' (type 'FontFamily') A few Google results dealing with custom controls suggest changing the property from DependencyObject to FrameworkElement, but I'd have to inherit DataGridTextColumn and define my own property to do so - there must be a better way. I've tried several different approaches to the binding, including attempting to change just the font size with a distinct property in my data class (i.e., FontSize="{Binding FontSize}" ). They've all resulted in the same error as above. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? Edit: Thanks to Jared's reply, I found the following: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jaimer/forwarding-the-datagrids-datacontext-to-its-columns The method looks sound, but I need to make a binding that references the correct element in the DataContext for each row, as opp

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