Font selection?

SynapticBytes

Before I go an create my own text routines to output my UI data in a nice bling font, I thought I’d better check if there’s any build in options to customise what is output by the print commands? I know there the option for a couple of size variations when outputting text to a pixel display, but is that all the customisation available natively?

Russell.

jstrout

Yep, I'm afraid so. For a (non-text-based) game, you would probably bake most of your text into images, and display them either as sprites or via PixelDisplay.drawImage.

SynapticBytes

OK no problem, just so long as I'm not re-inventing the wheel. I want to output my game status info (current score, energy level, status indicators etc) in a style to match my UI. Initially I'll be stripping a number into it's separate digits and outputting my images representing each digits back into a number to display. This is easy enough with a number, just if I move on to dynamic strings, it's a bit harder if I want to deal with kerning, which I don't, so that'll be something to consider down the track.

Russell.