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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.

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

love.graphics.setColor.

I don't understand the rest of your question.

Echo wrote: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

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?

Echo wrote: 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

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

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

Robin wrote: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?

IIRC, it only supports left-alignment.