love.font.newBMFontRasterizer - Creates a new BMFont Rasterizer.
- love.font.newBMFontRasterizer(imageData: ImageData, glyphs: string, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: No description
- love.font.newBMFontRasterizer(fileName: string, glyphs: string, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: No description
love.font.newGlyphData(rasterizer: Rasterizer, glyph: number): Creates a new GlyphData.
love.font.newImageRasterizer(imageData: ImageData, glyphs: string, extraSpacing: number, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Creates a new Image Rasterizer.
love.font.newRasterizer - Creates a new Rasterizer.
- love.font.newRasterizer(filename: string) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: No description
- love.font.newRasterizer(data: FileData) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: No description
- love.font.newRasterizer(size: number, hinting: HintingMode, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Create a TrueTypeRasterizer with the default font.
- love.font.newRasterizer(fileName: string, size: number, hinting: HintingMode, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Create a TrueTypeRasterizer with custom font.
- love.font.newRasterizer(fileData: FileData, size: number, hinting: HintingMode, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Create a TrueTypeRasterizer with custom font.
- love.font.newRasterizer(imageData: ImageData, glyphs: string, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Creates a new BMFont Rasterizer.
- love.font.newRasterizer(fileName: string, glyphs: string, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Creates a new BMFont Rasterizer.
love.font.newTrueTypeRasterizer - Creates a new TrueType Rasterizer.
- love.font.newTrueTypeRasterizer(size: number, hinting: HintingMode, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Create a TrueTypeRasterizer with the default font.
- love.font.newTrueTypeRasterizer(fileName: string, size: number, hinting: HintingMode, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Create a TrueTypeRasterizer with custom font.
- love.font.newTrueTypeRasterizer(fileData: FileData, size: number, hinting: HintingMode, dpiscale: number) -> rasterizer: Rasterizer: Create a TrueTypeRasterizer with custom font.

Types

GlyphData: A GlyphData represents a drawable symbol of a font Rasterizer.
- love.GlyphData.getAdvance() -> advance: number: Gets glyph advance.
- love.GlyphData.getBearing() -> bx: number, by: number: Gets glyph bearing.
- love.GlyphData.getBoundingBox() -> x: number, y: number, width: number, height: number: Gets glyph bounding box.
- love.GlyphData.getDimensions() -> width: number, height: number: Gets glyph dimensions.
- love.GlyphData.getFormat() -> format: PixelFormat: Gets glyph pixel format.
- love.GlyphData.getGlyph() -> glyph: number: Gets glyph number.
- love.GlyphData.getGlyphString() -> glyph: string: Gets glyph string.
- love.GlyphData.getHeight() -> height: number: Gets glyph height.
- love.GlyphData.getWidth() -> width: number: Gets glyph width.
Rasterizer: A Rasterizer handles font rendering, containing the font data (image or TrueType font) and drawable glyphs.
- love.Rasterizer.getAdvance() -> advance: number: Gets font advance.
- love.Rasterizer.getAscent() -> height: number: Gets ascent height.
- love.Rasterizer.getDescent() -> height: number: Gets descent height.
- love.Rasterizer.getGlyphCount() -> count: number: Gets number of glyphs in font.
- love.Rasterizer.getGlyphData(glyph: string) -> glyphData: GlyphData: Gets glyph data of a specified glyph.
- love.Rasterizer.getHeight() -> height: number: Gets font height.
- love.Rasterizer.getLineHeight() -> height: number: Gets line height of a font.
- love.Rasterizer.hasGlyphs(glyph1: string or number, ...: string or number) -> hasGlyphs: boolean: Checks if font contains specified glyphs.

Enums

HintingMode: True Type hinting mode.
- normal: Default hinting. Should be preferred for typical antialiased fonts.
- light: Results in fuzzier text but can sometimes preserve the original glyph shapes of the text better than normal hinting.
- mono: Results in aliased / unsmoothed text with either full opacity or completely transparent pixels. Should be used when antialiasing is not desired for the font.
- none: Disables hinting for the font. Results in fuzzier text.

Examples

Loading and using fonts

-- Load a font file
local font = love.graphics.newFont("arial.ttf", 24)

-- Set as default font
love.graphics.setFont(font)

-- Draw text
love.graphics.print("Hello World!", 100, 100)

Text formatting

-- Create fonts with different styles
local titleFont = love.graphics.newFont(36)
local bodyFont = love.graphics.newFont(18)
local boldFont = love.graphics.newFont("bold.ttf", 20)

function love.draw()
  love.graphics.setFont(titleFont)
  love.graphics.print("Game Title", 100, 50)

  love.graphics.setFont(bodyFont)
  love.graphics.printf("This is a paragraph of text that will be wrapped to fit within the specified width.", 100, 150, 400, "left")

  love.graphics.setFont(boldFont)
  love.graphics.print("Important Message!", 100, 300)
end

Best practices

Load fonts during initialization to avoid runtime delays
Use appropriate font sizes for different screen resolutions
Consider memory usage when loading multiple fonts
Handle font loading errors gracefully
Test text rendering on target platforms

Platform compatibility

Desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux): Full font support
Mobile (iOS, Android): Full support with some font limitations
Web: Good support but some fonts may not be available

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