Pygame Font Download WORK
Jeri Findley
Most of the work done with fonts are done by using the actual Font objects.The module by itself only has routines to support the creation of Font objectswith pygame.font.Font()create a new Font object from a file.
Before pygame 2.0.3, pygame.font accepts any UCS-2 / UTF-16 character('\u0001' to '\uFFFF'). After 2.0.3, pygame.font built with SDL_ttf2.0.15 accepts any valid UCS-4 / UTF-32 character(like emojis, if the font has them) ('\U00000001' to '\U0010FFFF')).More about this in Font.render().
Before pygame 2.0.3, this character space restriction can be avoided byusing the pygame.freetypeEnhanced pygame module for loading and rendering computer fonts based pygame.ftfont to emulate the Fontmodule. This can be used by defining the environment variable PYGAME_FREETYPEbefore the first import of pygamethe top level pygame package. Since the problem pygame.ftfontsolves no longer exists, it will likely be removed in the future.
Returns a tuple of integers that identify SDL_ttf's version.SDL_ttf is the underlying font rendering library, written in C,on which pygame's font module depends. If 'linked' is True (the default),the function returns the version of the linked TTF library.Otherwise this function returns the version of TTF pygame was compiled with
Returns a list of all the fonts available on the system. The names of thefonts will be set to lowercase with all spaces and punctuation removed. Thisworks on most systems, but some will return an empty list if they cannotfind fonts.
The font name can also be an iterable of font names, a string ofcomma-separated font names, or a bytes of comma-separated font names, inwhich case the set of names will be searched in order.If none of the given names are found, None is returned.
Return a new Font object that is loaded from the system fonts. The font willmatch the requested bold and italic flags. Pygame uses a small set of commonfont aliases. If the specific font you ask for is not available, a reasonablealternative may be used. If a suitable system font is not found this willfall back on loading the default pygame font.
Load a new font from a given filename or a python file object. The size isthe height of the font in pixels. If the filename is None the pygamedefault font will be loaded. If a font cannot be loaded from the argumentsgiven an exception will be raised. Once the font is created the size cannotbe changed. If no arguments are given then the default font will be used anda font size of 12 is used.
When set to True, this enables the bold rendering of text. Thisis a fake stretching of the font that doesn't look good on manyfont types. If possible load the font from a real bold fontfile. While bold, the font will have a different width than whennormal. This can be mixed with the italic, underline andstrikethrough modes.
When set to True, this enables fake rendering of italictext. This is a fake skewing of the font that doesn't look goodon many font types. If possible load the font from a real italicfont file. While italic the font will have a different widththan when normal. This can be mixed with the bold, underline andstrikethrough modes.
This creates a new Surface with the specified text rendered on it.pygame.fontpygame module for loading and rendering fonts provides no way to directly draw text on an existingSurface: instead you must use Font.render() to create an image(Surface) of the text, then blit this image onto another Surface.
The Surface returned will be of the dimensions required to hold the text.(the same as those returned by Font.size()). If an empty string is passedfor the text, a blank surface will be returned that is zero pixel wide andthe height of the font.
Changed in pygame 2.0.3: Rendering UCS4 unicode works and does notraise an exception. Use if hasattr(pygame.font, "UCS4"): to see ifpygame supports rendering UCS4 unicode including more languages andemoji.
Enables the bold rendering of text. This is a fake stretching of the fontthat doesn't look good on many font types. If possible load the font froma real bold font file. While bold, the font will have a different widththan when normal. This can be mixed with the italic, underline andstrikethrough modes.
Enables fake rendering of italic text. This is a fake skewing of the fontthat doesn't look good on many font types. If possible load the font froma real italic font file. While italic the font will have a differentwidth than when normal. This can be mixed with the bold, underline andstrikethrough modes.
I thought that pygame.font.Font was to load .ttf fonts, and that you can't load a font without having the .ttf file in the same directory, but I have seen a video where someone load a font without having the .ttf font in the same directory. I want to know what fonts can I use with pygame.font.Font without having the .ttf file in the same directory
There are generally two ways to use fonts in pygame: pygame.font.Font() and pygame.font.SysFont(). pygame.font.Font() expects a path to a font file as its first parameter, whereas pygame.font.SysFont() expects a string with the name of the font.
You can load any TrueType font file (*.ttf) with pygame.font.Font(). To load the font file myfont.ttf in your project directory simply call pygame.font.Font("myfont.ttf", size). Substitute the path to your file for the first parameter if you have it in a different location. You can use either a relative or an absolute file path.
Alternatively, you can use a system font by calling pygame.font.SysFont("fontname", size). Which system fonts you can call depends on the system on which you run this. If it cannot find the font you tried to supply, it will fallback onto the default system font. You can pass it a comma separated list of font names which will then be searched in order and the first available font will be returned. pygame.font.get_fonts() will return a list of all the names of the fonts it can find on your system which you can then use with it.
Lastly, to load a font file that isn't a TrueType font, you can use the pygame.freetype module which supports TTF, Type1, CFF, OpenType, SFNT, PCF, FNT, BDF, PFR and Type42 fonts. You can user either font files by calling pygame.freetype.Font() or system fonts by calling pygame.freetype.SysFont() similar to the font module.
So if you want to use the font 'Arial' and it is installed on your system, you can call it using pygame.font.SysFont('arial', size). If you don't have it installed on your system or are unsure, you may provide the path to the font file directly, e.g. pygame.font.Font("C:\Windows\Fonts\Arial.ttf",size).
Load a new font from a given filename or a python file object. The size is the height of the font in pixels. If the filename is None the pygame default font will be loaded. If a font cannot be loaded from the arguments given an exception will be raised. Once the font is created the size cannot be changed.
A good strategy is to first find the fonts supported by the system the code is executing on. The pygame.font.get_fonts() function will return a list of all the names of the fonts it can find on your system. We ran the code on our windows desktop and the following output was received. (We only included about 10 lines for readability, there were 52 in total)
It looks like a lot, but certain system have less than a dozen system fonts available to them. Now that we have these font names in front of us, we can simply pick one and pass it into the SysFont() function.
The SysFont() function only requires the name of the font, not the file path. For this reason the ttf extension is not included. The second parameter remains the same however, representing font size.
Defining the font is only the first step. Next up you actually have to render your chosen font and create a surface object. You also get to decide the color while rendering. The True parameter stands for anti-aliasing, used to make the edges smoother. Pass True if you want to use it, otherwise pass False.
color (as well as background, ocolor, scolor, andgcolor) can be an (r, g, b) sequence such as (255,127,0), apygame.Color object, a color name such as "orange", an HTML hexcolor string such as "#FF7F00", or a string representing a hex colornumber such as "0xFF7F00".
Positioning keyword arguments behave like the corresponding propertiesof pygame.Rect. Either specify two arguments, corresponding to thehorizontal and vertical positions of the box, or a single argument thatspecifies both.
screen.draw.textbox requires two arguments: the text to be drawn, and apygame.Rect or a Rect-like object to stay within. The font sizewill be chosen to be as large as possible while staying within the box.Other than fontsize and positional arguments, you can pass all thesame keyword arguments to screen.draw.textbox as to screen.draw.text.
pygame-menu offers many parameters to control the visual aspect of themenu. For an easier usage, all of them are gathered in a specific object calleda theme. It is used to customize the menu window itself and all its widgets.
The default font is a little bit boring. Thankfully it is very easy to change this. Your system will have a heap of built in fonts (any of which may be used). If you want to see what fonts are already available on your system, create a simple script as follows :
Any of the fonts in this list may then be utilised by replacing None (in the initial program) with the name of the font (within quotes) and changing Font to SysFont when loading the font. eg :
The system fonts provide some variability in the look of the fonts but for a game we often want something a bit more exciting / suited to the style of our game interface. Fortunately it is very simple to find and use other fonts.
Any font in the .ttf (True Type Font) can be used. Let's say we have a folder called fonts which is in the same location as our program. Including it is as simple as using the path to the font file :
I wrote an application in pygame to display some text. The text consist of a counter which is updated every second or so. I am using raspberry pi for this application. So when I use xserver then everything is displayed correctly but if I use sdl_videodriver fbcon for display then static text is displayed correctly but the counter(text) whose value changes is not displayed correctly. The new value of counter is displayed over the older value and thus after few seconds it becomes unreadable. Following is my code
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