Blender Custom Font

[Sandra Grady]

Hereyou can specify different fonts for standard, bold, and italics; as well as various other typesetting parameters. You can also define a set of objects as a custom font by naming them something like fontName_a, fontName_b, etc. and use fontName_ as the Object Font.

In order to find fonts easily I have bookmarked my system's fonts folder (C:\Windows\Fonts\ on Windows, /Library/Fonts on macOS) in Blender's file browser so I can quickly add new fonts. Note: as Chebhou explains in his answer you can also set the default directory for when browsing for fonts in the user preferences.

I finally found a tutorial on YouTube, As a long-time designer but Blender noob, I'm spoiled by font management software on Mac (FontAgentPro). Since Blender doesn't have system-level font access, I need to :

Previous attempts to use different format was a good idea, but WOFF was not supported, so I found out that blender supports also OTF. I downloaded pack from Fontsquirrel (otf by default) instead Gooogle fonts and it works :) Converting TTF to OTF would probably work too, but I did not tried this.

Edit: I found out that font format is not the case. Blender cannot handle glyphs in fonts with overlapping shapes (so for ex. "X" should be single mesh and not two crossed boxes one on top of another one). In my case same font from other source was fixed.

In my usage, this worked perfectly to fix the static font files from a variable font design hosted by Google Fonts. Seems like conversions are pretty basic, and the static alternatives still retain all of the overlapping and intersecting needed for variable usage even when no longer variable. But following the above stops, the files now work without issues in Blender.

I am trying to render Bengali fonts correctly in blender, but it is not rendering properly. I faced the same problem trying to draw Bengali text on image with python. I found that pillow is able to do this, but it was not straightforward like English text. I was able to get it working following these two links below,

Turns out Blender 2.92 already has path tracing included. Drag and dropping image in viewport, then Object > Trace Image to Grease Pencil on selected object is able trace the path which can extruded to any height requirement to generate 3D text.

I would still prefer an answer that removes the black pixels (or inverted) and extrudes the white pixels along Z axis to given height to create mesh using python without something like Inkscape. To this end my idea at the moment is using python get the contours, somehow save these as vector path, save as svg and finally load in blender.

I found two more ways to render font with height, but it is not my preferred way. One is using bump and another is using displacement + bump. Using bump does not give proper height, but looks good from far and able get the correct shadows.

To use displacement + bump or just displacement the plane needs to be subdivided a lot to get proper height with somewhat good results using blender cycles. The black and white mask image should be used as image texture with cubic interpolation to improve the results.

- Font Folders configuration : the addon allows you to setup several font folder on your computer through the addon user preferences. Sudirectories of the font folders will also be scanned for fonts. If you have uninstalled fonts on this computer, you can use them aside installed fonts, just create several font folders. You can save this configuration in an external file, in case you uninstall the addon, and want to keep track of your font folders. The external file is in a simple txt file, stored in a custom folder (by default in config folder of blender, you can change this through user preferences of the addon). This means you can load a previous font folder configuration in one click, in case you uninstalled your addon...

- Refresh operator checks for you all available fonts in your font folders and subdirectories. It may take some time, but the result will be externally stored in your prefs folder. You don't have to do it again, except if you installed (or add) or uninstalled (or remove) fonts in your font folders

- Remove unused Fonts : To work, the addon has to create an extra vector font datablock (extra font imported) and replace it when you browse from font to font. This leads to an unused datablock at the end of the day. A simple Operator allows you to remove it quickly !

- The addon now filtered the corrupted font file out, and store their name in a file in order to not try to import them again ! You can manually add some font to filter through the addon preferences !

Text-based objects in Blender can be used in many different scenarios from title sequences, to credit reels, to pages of a 3D book. There are many ways in which you can edit your text in Blender and one of the most useful changes that you can make is altering the font of your text to encourage a certain style for your scene.

The best way of accessing custom text fonts is to use a text library site like dafont.com or font space. Go to the website of your choice and then locate the font that you wish to use, then download it. In Blender go to the font options in the object data tab and locate your downloaded font on your device to change your text to that font.New fonts are added all the time to these websites and so you will have access to more font styles than you will ever need, although keep in mind that when downloading fonts each one has a license that indicates what it can and cannot be used for.

Using fonts found on the internet will require you to check if those fonts are usable for your projects, as there are many fonts that are licensed for personal use but not commercial use.Is it a requirement though to access fonts over the internet by using one of these library sites or do you already have some fonts that you can use that come preinstalled with Blender?Other than the default standard text font, Blender does not have any additional fonts that you are able to access. However, your operating system on the other hand is likely to have its own font library that you can access.

The windows operating system for example has its own font library that can be used with your blender projects, and all of these fonts are available for both commercial and personal use.To make it easy to access the font library, we will need to direct Blender to the library whenever we want to use a new font for our project.Directing Blender To The Windows Font Library?Start off by going to the edit menu in the header bar of the 3D viewport and then accessing the preferences option from the menu.

This will open up the preferences panel in another window. You will see numerous tabs in the side column for the various settings. The one that we want to select is the File Paths section.File PathsHere you can direct Blender to various external locations on your computer based on what it is that you want to use in your project, and the very first option is for the fonts.Click on the folder icon for the fonts option, which should be blank by default, and then the file browser will open up in another window.

The font library is actually very easy to locate, and it will be on your main drive that the operating system is installed to, so select that drive from the menu.Select Main DriveIn the list of various locations available to you on your main drive, you will need to double click on the windows folder.In the windows folder, you will need to locate the folder that is titled as fonts, which when opened will view all of the fonts that are accessible in the font library.

While viewing the fonts, just click on the blue accept button at the bottom of the file browser to confirm the font library as the location for your Blender fonts.Assigning The LibraryAlternatively, just copy and paste C:\Windows\Fonts\ into the search bar at the top of the panel and then press accept, it is the exact same location.If you return to the preferences panel then you will see C:\Windows\Fonts\ as your selected location for your font files.

Now go to the properties panel for your text object and select the object data tab that has the a icon. In this tab scroll down to the fonts section and open it up. You will see that you have the option to use your font in various ways, including regular, bold, italic, and a bold + italic combo.Font Options For TextSelect the folder icon for the regular tab if you are looking to add a regular font, and it will take you to the Windows font library.Select And Open FontYou can now select the font that you want to use from the font library, and then click the blue button to import the selected font into your Blender project.

The text object itself will instantly change to the new font, and you can test as many different fonts that you wish to find the one that is best to use.Learn new skills for next to nothing on Skillshare!Where Are Fonts Stored On A Mac?Not everybody who uses Blender will use it on a windows device, and many of you will probably be using a Mac instead with the MacOS.Much like the Windows operating system, MacOS also has its own font library that you can access if you want to use the fonts in Blender.

The process of directing your Blender software to the fonts folder is very similar, so follow the same steps as above with the Windows example.The only difference of course is going to be the actual location of the font library. A good shortcut to the press is to paste in /Library/Fonts/ to the blank area for your fonts to direct it to the correct location.

There are two small issues with using the font libraries that come with your operating system. The first issue is that many of the fonts are subtle and considered to be more traditional fonts to use for writing and long texts.In 3D projects, it is likely that your use of text objects will be limited to single words or small phrases, so you may be more interested in looking for fonts that have an added character to them to fit the theme of your project.The second issue is that you cannot view what these fonts look like, and so you will need to actually import each font into your Blender project to view how it looks, which can be tedious and time-consuming to continuously change the selected font.

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