To add custom fonts in cocos2d-x i followed the following steps.
Download a font.
paste it in resource file of my project without any subfolder.
Add my font in info.plist in Fonts provided by application as Roboto-thin.ttf
Add it in Copy bundle resources.
I used the following code to display the font:
CCLabelTTF* cycleLabel1 = CCLabelTTF::create(" ", "Roboto-Thin.ttf", 80);
I tried with removing the extension also in the code, but no use. Anyone please help me to solve this problem.
On IOS, inside your CCLabelTTF::create() you have to use the NAME of the font, not the file of the font. In your case it is probably "Roboto Thin". Something like this:
CCLabelTTF* cycleLabel1 = CCLabelTTF::create(" ", "Roboto Thin", 80);
You can see font names installing them and opening them in Font Book (assuming you use mac)
Note on Android you still call fonts using its file name.
It is very explained (not very well at all) in the documentation.
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/How_to_Use_Custom_TTF_Font_on_iOS
Try this:
AddFontResource(L"xxx/yyy/Roboto-Thin.ttf");
before CCLabelTTF::create(" ", "Roboto-Thin", 80);
and then RemoveFontResource(L"xxx/yyy/Roboto-Thin.ttf");
Make sure that the name of the font and the file name are the same
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I am writing an application using the Qt framework. In the display, I have to show multiple information, but using different types of font of the same family, Montserrat.
What I have done so far to load the fonts is:
int ultralightid = QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont(":/Montserrat_UltraLight.tff");
QString UltraFont= QFontDatabase::applicationFontFamilies(ultralightid ).at(0);
QFont font1(UltraFont,QFont::Normal);
font1.setPixelSize(50);
int lightid = QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont(":/Montserrat_Light.tff");
QString LightFont= QFontDatabase::applicationFontFamilies(lightid).at(0);
QFont font2(LightFont,QFont::Normal);
font2.setPixelSize(150);
label1->setFont(font1);
label2->setFont(font2);
label1->setText("bla bla");
label2->setText("bla bla");
The font sizes are correct, but the font itself it is not. From what I have noticed (trying with Hairline_Montserrat,Light_Montserrat,UltraLight_Montserrat), it is as if the fonts have a sort of priority. If I declare them all, all the fonts are the Light one, if I comment that font type, all of them are Hairline one, otherwise (last priority) the labels use the ultralight font.
I have tried adding other font type (from other families) and in that case my code works correctly.
If I use
qDebug()<<QFontDatabase::applicationFontFamilies(ultralightid);
qDebug()<<QFontDatabase::applicationFontFamilies(lightid);
both of them print the family "Montserrat".
I use the qrc file and the AUTORCC flag in the CMAKE (it should be similar using qmake) and all the file are uploaded correctly.
Do you know if there is another way to add fonts of the same family? Or is there something I am doing wrong?
Here are the fonts:
https://www.onlinewebfonts.com/download/9d31c906a6cc6064bbe7d33d51058317 light
https://it.allfont.net/download/montserrat-light/ ultralight
This is an old question but I was just struggling with exactly the same problem when trying to load normal, bold, ... versions of a font family in Qt.
I solved the problem (although in a somewhat hacky way) by simply giving each of the ttf files a different family name. I used Typograf, simply open the font, right click to open properties and then click rename. There are probably many other tools that do this too.
You don't need to manage font files from one family separatelly.
I suggest this solution:
Create a folder with all ttf's of the same family.
Load all files from the folder via id = QFontDatabase.addApplicationFont(path)
Collect all font families from these files via QFontDatabase.applicationFontFamilies(id)
Check if only one and desired family is loaded, and the family name is exactly the same as requested, or warn the user about these errors.
Create font object font = QFont(family)
Then for example, font.setItalic(True). If Italic version of family is loaded, it will be used, otherwise it will be created from Regular by QT.
This code works:
auto label = LabelTTF::create(CokeStore::name, "Marker Felt", 170);
But none of these work:
auto label = LabelTTF::create(CokeStore::name, "Coca Cola ii", 170);
auto label = LabelTTF::create(CokeStore::name, "CocaColaii", 170);
auto label = LabelTTF::create(CokeStore::name, "cocacolaii", 170);
I imported all the fonts as resources into my project and added fonts' path into Fonts provided by application of Info.plist. I'm using Cocos2d-x v. 3, the latest version from Github.
Anybody can help me with this? Is there anything wrong with my code and how to fix them?
Thanks for your help!
I was facing alot of difficulty adding a custom font. I know the question has already been answered but I just want to share what solved the problem for me.
These are the points you need to ensure to use a custom font:
Font name must match the PostScript name of that font (you can easily find the postscript name using the Font Book, just select the font and press command+i) , so your font name should be: PostScriptName.ttf
In the Info.plist of your project, make sure to add the font name under "Fonts provided by application", just put in the font name and extension for item0 or whatever the length of your font stack is: PostScriptName.ttf,
Now, the next step that solved the issue for me was:
Ensure that the font file exists in the "Copy Bundle Resources" Section of the 'Build Phases' settings for your project. For me it somehow wasnt there and thats why the font wasnt loading, so I just manually added it.
Now you can use it even with LabelTTF::create("Text", "PostScriptName", 24)!
In Cocos2d-x V3, there is a new class Label.
I tried this and it worked:
Label *label = Label::createWithTTF("Your string here","cocacolaii.ttf", 170);
For more details, you can read this
I try to use Xft, the tutorial, well let them calling that a tutorial... looks like it was written in a north korean camp... I also found this one. So let me try to do a step-by-step :
// g++ XftTest.cc -lX11 -lXft `pkg-config --cflags freetype2`
#include<unistd.h>
#include<X11/Xlib.h>
#include<X11/Xutil.h>
#include<X11/Xft/Xft.h>
int main()
{
Display *display;
XftFont *font;
XftDraw *xftdraw;
XRenderColor xrcolor;
XftColor xftcolor;
display = XOpenDisplay(0);
Window XP = XCreateSimpleWindow(display,DefaultRootWindow(display),0,0,360,90,0,0,0);
XMapWindow(display,XP);
font = NULL; /* added 6/16 */
//font = XftFontOpenName(display,0,"NorthKorea-50"); // how to check if this is good ?
font = XftFontOpenName(display,0,"") /* added 6/16 */
if (!font) return 1;
xftdraw = XftDrawCreate(display,XP,DefaultVisual(display,0),DefaultColormap(display,0));
xrcolor.red =65535;
xrcolor.green=0;
xrcolor.blue =0;
xrcolor.alpha=65535;
XftColorAllocValue(display,DefaultVisual(display,0),DefaultColormap(display,0),&xrcolor,&xftcolor);
XftDrawString8(xftdraw, &xftcolor, font, 20,70 , (XftChar8 *)"Joe Dalton", 10);
XFlush(display);
sleep(2);
XftDrawDestroy(xftdraw);
XftColorFree(display,DefaultVisual(display,0),DefaultColormap(display,0),&xftcolor);
return 0;
}
as you can see, in the XftFontOpenName :
XftFontOpenName(display,0,"NorthKorea-50")
if you write a bullshit, like I did, there is no error or something to tell me that I don't have a font called NorthKorea. That make sense since XftFontOpenName returns the nearest font from the string.
So, how can I check if my font match or not ? how can I use a font like arial? I tried XftFontOpenName(display,0,"arial-50"), I got nothing different.
On my system, I have these folders in my fonts folder :
$ls /usr/share/fonts/
100dpi 75dpi cyrillic encodings misc OTF TTF Type1 util
can I use any font in these folders by the same way ?
if you guys have some nice internet links, it would be a pleasure for me to take a look.
n.b. : there is no xft tag...
update 6/16
I'm still stuck with dat stuff...
I don't understand, if I replace
font = XftFontOpenName(display,0,"NorthKorea-50");
by
font = XftFontOpenName(display,0,"");
it still loading a font...
xlsfonts return a lot of stuff, like dat one :
-monotype-courier new-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10
but passing this as argument to XftFontOpenName changes nothing; I try to load a font with XftFontOpenXlfd too, it returns always NULL...
xft uses fontconfig for font discovery. xlsfonts is a way to query the old X core fonts system fontconfig replaced. xlsfonts results won't map in any reliable way way to the fontconfig state.
So:
forget about any shortcut where xft work sort-of like the X core font system documented in last centuries tech books. It is completely different. It is not X core fonts with antialiasing and truetype support. It is something that can use modern fonts and do antialiasing, but definitely not X core fonts in any form
Read the fontconfig documentation, the fontconfig configuration files on your system, and use fontconfig utilities (fc-query, fc-list, etc) to query the fontconfig state
as the people who maintain xorg (both x core fonts and fontconfig) already told you, do not try to use xft directly. xft is the product of the first attempt to write a new font stack. Its capabilities are not sufficient to manage modern text and modern fonts. The part dealing with modern font format complexities has been spun out in pango a long time ago (because it was proving complex enough it deserved a separate project). If you try to use xft alone, you'll hit the deficiencies in pre-pango code sooner or later, and no one will be interested in fixing your problems because the same code has already been subjected to a decade of fixes pango-side. Avoiding pango is not a shortcut. Avoiding pango is trying to rely of an half-finished, abandonned for years project.
forget about matching a specific font file. fontconfig will actively fight any attempt to work this way. In the post-core-fonts world, you give the font system a font pattern, and it will build a matching font for you. If the result is not the font file you expected that's because the file was evaluated and found lacking. If you want fontconfig to use this file you will have to fix the font file (add the missing glyphs, the missing font styles, etc), not write code to try to force it anyway. Fontconfig considers that it's more important to render a text your users can read, than to only render the parts your pet font can do. And yes that's now how you're used to think about it on other systems. fontconfig is different. Nothing short of a rewrite will make it behave like you expect. No one is interested in this rewrite because by and large fontconfig has been quite successful those past years.
fonts opentype text-rendering fontconfig linux
You should not pass an empty string to XftFontOpenName and expect to match a font. Xft provides support for core fonts and the structure nested within XftFont is a union of XFontStruct and XftFontStruct. X11 fills in the default font in the XFontStruct when creating new instances, so in the case of empty string you are likely getting the default core font.
In the simplest approach, one can hard code a font name like this:
const char *font_name = "Arial-20";
XftFont *font = XftFontOpenName (display, DefaultScreen(display), font_name);
Or you could use XftFontMatch and check the "results" before passing the pattern to XftFontOpenPattern. See http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/xft.html#sec-editing
Note that XCloseDisplay is missing.
I am trying to use Unity, with a build script that creates my application by ultimately invoking BuildPipeline from the script. I am trying to figure out how to set up the icons, however. After calling PlayerSettings.SetIconsForTargetGroup and invoking BuildPipline.BuildPlayer, the appropriate icon does not show up for the executable file produced, nor display when the program is running.
I am currently using the following code.
Texture2D texture = AssetDatabase.LoadMainAssetAtPath(iconFile) as Texture2D;
int [] sizeList = PlayerSettings.GetIconSizesForTargetGroup(BuildTargetGroup.Standalone);
Texture2D[] iconList = new Texture2D[sizeList.Length];
for(int i=0;i<sizeList.Length;i++)
{
int iconSize = sizeList[i];
iconList[i] = (Texture2D)Instantiate(texture);
iconList[i].Resize(iconSize,iconSize,TextureFormat.ARGB32,false);
}
PlayerSettings.SetIconsForTargetGroup(BuildTargetGroup.Standalone,iconList);
What am I doing wrong?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Using BuildTargetGroup.Unknown works for me.
This also worked for me:
BuildTargetGroup.Unknown
But with an unwanted outcome: Unity does not override all icon sizes when setting one single Texture2D PNG, so Windows Explorer swaps the icon of my application EXE between the Unity default icon and my icon for different resolutions. Definitely, seems like a bug in Unity3D BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer(..) or SetIconsForTargetGroup(..).
If you're calling BuildPipline.BuildPlayer for OSX, then you need to specify full folder:
/MyPath/MyApp.app
i.e. don't leave out the ".app" part, because without that Unity builds the app, but doesn't include icons or splash image in resolution dialog.
I am trying to use custom font in Cocos2d-Android with CClabel, I have added my font file into the assets and trying to use it by name "Faraco_Hand.ttf" and "Faraco_Hand" but its not working, I have googled around but haven't found any solution. this is how my code looks a like:
currentVideoLabel = CCLabel.makeLabel(VideosLabels[currentSelected], "Faraco_Hand.ttf", winSize.width/41);
currentVideoLabel.setPosition(CGPoint.make(winSize.width/2, 20));
addChild(currentVideoLabel);
If someone know this please help me.
Hi i use this way to add font in my game here i am sharing you my code check it hope it's helpful for you here i am setting my font on label this is the only way to set fonts...all the best
Example:1
CCLabel labelcontinue = CCLabel.makeLabel("continue", "fonts/JimboStd-Black.otf", 14);
labelcontinue.setPosition(CGPoint.ccp(272, 95));
labelcontinue.setColor(ccColor3B.ccc3(165, 42, 42));
mainPaperNode.addChild(labelcontinue, 25);
Example2:
CCLabel labelWelcome = CCLabel.makeLabel("Welcome", "fonts/JimboStdBlack.otf",20);
labelWelcome.setColor(ccColor3B.ccc3(139, 69, 19));
labelWelcome.setPosition(CGPoint.ccp(innerArea.getContentSize().getWidth() / 2, (innerArea.getContentSize().getHeight() / 2) + 138));
innerArea.addChild(labelWelcome);
i know this is late reply, anyhow it may help someone who search this same thing...
CCLabel supports external fonts but some of the ttf will not recognized by android so it will through exception so better you try another font instead of this the code is same...
label = CCLabel.makeLabel("label value", "external_font_name.ttf", 30);
label.setPosition(CGPoint.make(winSize.width/2, 20));
addChild(label);
I don't think there's any problem with your method. I guess the problem is you are renaming the original font file. Rename the font file name with its original name (written in the font file itself, check attached image).
in this case, I kept my ttf file in Resources/fonts folder and wrote my code like:
CCLabelTTF* label = CCLabelTTF::create("Hello World", "fonts/A Damn Mess.ttf", 20);
Also check CCLabelTTF instead of CCLabel.
Hope this will help you.
Hai this will help. This code works for me fine. Put custom font int assets->fonts
CCLabel label1 = CCLabel.makeLabel("Points: 0", "fonts/pin.ttf", 28);
label1.setColor(ccColor3B.ccWHITE);
label1.setPosition(280f * scaleX, 550f * scaleY);
addChild(label1);