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I've been trying to create some games that resemble the 16-bit games from the past, and I found out when I resize images that are very small they become very blurry and not sharp. However, I found out that by using love.graphics.setDefaultImageFilter("nearest", "nearest") I can fix the problem. However, it does not work with text. Help, please?

You could just use a larger font size, instead of scaling the text.

You can do it with text, if you use an image for font.

Robin: I'm actually scaling down the text, because everything is scaled up (so the 16-bit sprites are visible)

Also, I'm using a ttf so I can't use an image.

I used an image font and it didn't work either. Using :setFilter does nothing. After a bit of reading, I discovered Love 0.90 is going to have font:setFilter and hopefully integrate a set default font filter into love.graphics.setDefaultFilter.

Here is a link to my .love: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5nzoukrfer4ixo/BouncerX.love

My code organization is very messy, sorry

If there's any bad habits I'm making in my code management please castigate me ferociously!

You packaged the .love wrong (zip the contents, not the folder), but anyway: I'd unscale before drawing the text. Text drawing doesn't play well with love.graphics.scale.