What you have creates a font with point size of 1, so you have to derive a font with a larger point size, instead try:
kingThing = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, in).deriveFont(36f);
Here the actual docs that specify this, and the text:
createFont
Returns a new Font using the specified font type and input data. The new Font is created with a point size of 1 and style PLAIN. This base font can then be used with the deriveFont methods in this class to derive new Font objects with varying sizes, styles, transforms and font features. T