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A font file contains a set of digital typefaces (typefaces or fonts). Font files typically contain vector or bitmap data describing each character's shape in the typeface. They are used to display text in a specified format and style. 



Pygame is a cross-platform Python modules designed to write video game code. It contains computer graphics and sound libraries designed for the Python programming language. Pygame will add functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. It is free and open source software available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android. 


Pygame’s font module is used to render text on the screen. One can load a font file in Pygame using the pygame.font.Font() method. 

  • This method takes the font file name as an argument and returns a Font object. 
  • Once the Font object is created, one can use it to render text on the screen using the render() method. 


Here is an example of loading a font file in Pygame 


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Fig2: Preview of a part of the Output

Code


In this solution, we will load a font file in Pygame.

Pygame Python font

PythondotLines of Code : 38dotLicense : Strong Copyleft (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dependent Libraries : 
import pygame

pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
font = pygame.font.Font("freesansbold.ttf", 200)
i = 0
text = "hello how are you?"
run = True
while run:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False

    letter = text[i]
    text_1 = font.render(letter, True, (0, 0, 0))
    text_draw = font.render(letter, True, (0, 0, 0), (255, 255, 255))

    bw, bh = font.size(letter)
    glyph_rect = pygame.mask.from_surface(text_1).get_bounding_rects()
    if glyph_rect:
        gh = glyph_rect[0].height
        print(f"{glyph_rect[0]}")
        print(f'letter {letter}  bitmap height: {bh}  glyph height: {gh} width = {glyph_rect[0].width} width_2 = {bw}')

    win.fill((128, 128, 128))
    win.blit(text_draw, (100, 100))
    for r in glyph_rect:
        draw_rect = r.move(100, 100)
        pygame.draw.rect(win, (255, 0, 0), draw_rect, 3)
    pygame.display.update()

    i += 1
    run = i < len(text)
    clock.tick(1)

pygame.quit()

Instructions


  1. Install Jupyter Notebook on your computer.
  2. Open terminal and install the required libraries with following commands.
  3. Install Pygame - pip install pygame
  4. Copy the snippet using the 'copy' button and paste it into that file.
  5. Run the file using run button.


I hope you found this useful. I have added the link to dependent libraries, version information in the following sections.


I found this code snippet by searching for "Loading a font file in Pygame " in kandi. You can try any such use case!

Dependent Libraries

pygameby pygame

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🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.

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            pygameby pygame

            C doticon star image 6066 doticonVersion:2.5.0.dev2doticonno licences License: No License

            🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
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                      If you do not have Pygame that is required to run this code, you can install it by clicking on the above link and copying the pip Install command from the Pygame page in kandi.


                      You can search for any dependent library on kandi like Pygame.

                      Environment Tested


                      I tested this solution in the following versions. Be mindful of changes when working with other versions.

                      1. The solution is created in Python3.9.6
                      2. The solution is tested on Pygame 2.3.0 version.


                      Using this solution, we are able to load a font file in Pygame


                      This process also facilities an easy to use, hassle free method to create a hands-on working version of code which would help us to load a font file in Pygame.

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