How do I access built in shaders and fonts?

I’m trying to dynamically create a TextMesh in one of my scripts. I want to use Unity’s standard Arial font and Font Material. However, when I add a TextMesh component via script, all of the material and font references are blank and I must load them in manually. Here’s a really basic example of what I have:

public class MenuElement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextMesh textMesh;

    void Start()
    {
        textMesh = gameObject.AddComponent<TextMesh> ();
	    textMesh.anchor = TextAnchor.MiddleCenter;
	    textMesh.fontSize = 30;
	    textMesh.characterSize = 0.1f;
	    textMesh.text = gameObject.name;
    }

}

So from what I understand, I also have to initialize the font and its material (via MeshRenderer). This would be fine, but I’m not sure how I can reference Unity’s pre-made materials and fonts. I’m assuming I have to use Resources.Load(), but I believe that only works with my project’s resources. Is there a way to use the same font and material that the standard TextMesh component uses when you spawn it via Component > Create Other > 3D Text? If not, is there a better way of creating Text Mesh’s procedurally?

Try this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class SetTextMeshFont : MonoBehaviour {

	private TextMesh textMesh;

	void Start () {
		// Grab the textmesh component
		textMesh = GetComponent<TextMesh>();

		// Now get the built in font
		Font ArialFont = (Font)Resources.GetBuiltinResource (typeof(Font), "Arial.ttf");

		// Apply the font and material to the textmesh
		textMesh.font = ArialFont;
		textMesh.renderer.material = ArialFont.material;
	}
}