Font Doesn't Draw As Expected

By ell Date 2010-07-17 21:02

I am using the font "Silkscreen" for my game and it doesn't appear to draw correctly compared to a sample in gimp, take this image for instance:

The image on the left shows the font at size 16 normally, the image on the right shows Gosu's drawing of it at size 16 showing a much thicker, bulkier font, I would much rather see the crisp text I was expecting to see, like the one on the left of the image. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, ell.

By erisdiscord Date 2010-07-17 21:13

Gosu draws bold by default; there's a topic about text formatting on the forum that should help you out.

Short answer: start your strings with </b> to turn off bold.

By TheOm3ga Date 2010-07-17 23:22

Or you can pass 0 as the fontFlags parameter.

By erisdiscord Date 2010-07-17 23:31

I assume the OP is using Ruby based on the screen shot. Ruby Gosu's font constructor only accepts the font name and size.

By ell Date 2010-07-18 08:58

Thanks guys, you'v been a great help!

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