Font

FONT* name = "filename";

FONT* name = "fontname#size(style)";

Defines a fixed width character font out of an image file, or a proportional font from a Truetype file. For the image file format, the same restrictions as for the BMAP object applies. The bitmap must either contain 11 characters - numbers 0..9 and space - in a horizontal row for numerical displays, or 4 or 8 rows of 32 characters for alphanumerical text.

Parameters:

name	name of the font
filename	name of the font bitmap file
fontname	name of the truetype font. Fonts existing on all Windows machines are "Arial", "Times", and "Courier".
style	style of the truetype font, omit = normal, b = bold, i = italics, bi = bold + italics
size	the height of a truetype character in points

Remarks:

Use font_create() for creating a font at runtime.
The sequence of alphanumerical characters in the font bitmap is not fixed, but depends on the character set used in the script - DOS/ASCII, Windows/ANSI, or even a foreign language font such as Greek, Cyrillic, or Arabic. The bitmap can contain either 11 characters in one row, 128 characters in 4 rows, or 256 characters in 8 rows. For 128 characters the bitmap width must be more than 4 times its height; otherwise a 256 characters bitmap is assumed.

4 rows, 128 characters font bitmap with German umlauts

Examples:

FONT* panel_font = "ventfont.pcx"; // bitmap font
FONT* arial_font = "Arial#20b"; // truetype font, 20 point bold characters

See also:

bmap, sound, font_create, file formats ► latest version online