Creating nice fonts in love

[silver_hawk]

Has anybody some experience with fonts in love? how to create neat fonts using the inbuilt font system, rather than drawing each font?
effects like shadows, blends, gradients and so on?

I would really like some advice on this point, and maybe we could share some examples?

Have a nice day <3

[Lafolie]

It almost sounds as if you are confusing fonts with implementations of the font API. I believe Robin's RichText library is pretty good at what I think you're looking for.

[Robin]

I believe Robin's RichText library is pretty good at what I think you're looking for.

It has no support for shadows, blends and gradients, though.

To do that, you'd probably want to use stencils or something.

[T-Bone]

It's probably just easier to render a normal font to a Frameb- I mean Canvas, and then applying various effects and stuff to it.

[silver_hawk]

Nice i will try both, but what do you normally do when you want some nice style text ingame? Do you use a nice font, or a library for creating nice text via. sprites? Just curious

[kikito]

I'd just create an image with gimp or photoshop.

[silver_hawk]

I'd just create an image with gimp or photoshop.

Ye but the thing is, I have to do quite a lot based on strings, rather that some hard coded ones, so it would be nice with some effects on these
But I think I might go with the text to sprite and then do some canvas manipulation but I don't have any experience with that kind of thing yet

[Inny]

You could use imagefonts: https://love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.newImageFont and https://love2d.org/wiki/ImageFontFormat

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do
  local fontset =
    [=[ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]=] ..
    [=[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]=] ..
    [=[0123456789]=] ..
    [=["?!.,'~^#@$*&+-=\/|:;()[]{}_`<>%]=]

  function loadImageFont(name)
    local fontimg = love.graphics.newImage(name)
    local fontimg:setFilter("nearest", "nearest")
    local font = love.graphics.newImageFont(fontimg, fontset)
    local fontHeight = fontimg:getHeight()
    local font:setLineHeight( fontHeight )
    love.graphics.setFont(font)
  end
end

They're pretty easy and gets the job done.

[T-Bone]

Of course you should use image fonts! I actually forgot LÖVE had support for ttf

It's quite fun to make fonts, it doesn't take too much effort to get decent results

[silver_hawk]

Nice I must try the image fonts then

Is there an example .png anywhere, where I can get an idea on how do create one on my own?
Sounds like that the way to go

And ty all for the quick responses <3