How do I change the font color?

[Echo]

How do I change the font color in Love2d/Lua? I already checked the wiki and Lua tutorials.

What I need is to have bold sharp ( no antialiasing ) white and black text. The white text will be over a grey background and the black will be over a white background in the same scene which means that I might need two text styles showing at the same time. Is this possible in Love2d?

Look at the font in the screenshot below.


This is what I am trying to do but when I use Bradley Handwriting as the font type it is aliased and sort of grayish white which is extremely hard to read over a grey or white background.
I really want to use Bradly Handwriting (BRADHITC) as the font type like in the mock-up screenshot as it completes the notebook theme I am going for.

[Robin]

How do I change the font color in Love2d/Lua?

love.graphics.setColor.

I don't understand the rest of your question.

[josefnpat]

I really want to use Bradly Handwriting (BRADHITC) as the font type like in the mock-up screenshot as it completes the notebook theme I am going for.

Download the font, put it in your project, and then use https://love2d.org/wiki/love.graphics.setFont

[Echo]

I used love.graphics.setFont already but the font is aliased, like it has blurry edges, and so I was wondering if I could make the font bold and also if possible remove the antialiasing ( antialiasing is a way the computer makes small images like sprites and font appear smooth by adding shading to the edges ).

and in addition to that is there a way to use two different font styles at the same time, like if I want to have a heading in Ariel Black and then the adjacent text in Times New Roman. or if I want to have a specific word colored in red how would I go about this?

[Roland_Yonaba]

and in addition to that is there a way to use two different font styles at the same time, like if I want to have a heading in Ariel Black and then the adjacent text in Times New Roman. or if I want to have a specific word colored in red how would I go about this?

Fairly simple. Create two new font objects using love.graphics.newFont.
Then in the drawing part of your code, switch to the font you need using love.graphics.setFont

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function love.load()
   fontA = love.graphics.newFont(font_A_path)
   fontB = love.graphics.newFont(font_B_path)
end

function love.draw()
   love.graphics.setFont(fontA)
   -- draw some stuff
   love.graphics.setFont(fontB)
   -- draw some stuff
   ...

[Santos]

For non-anti-aliased fonts, you might want to try using a program to convert fonts to images like Bitmap Font Generator and using it in LÖVE as an ImageFont

[Robin]

There is also RichText, which takes care of fonts, colors, and you can even embed images in your text.

[Sinono3]

There is also [wiki]RichText[/wiki], which takes care of fonts, colors, and you can even embed images in your text.

In RichText, how do I align the text?

[Robin]

IIRC, it only supports left-alignment.