Font:setFilter

Available since LÖVE 0.9.0
This function is not supported in earlier versions.

Sets the filter mode for a font.

Function

Synopsis

Font:setFilter( min, mag, anisotropy )

Arguments

FilterMode min
How to scale a font down.
FilterMode mag (min)
How to scale a font up.
number anisotropy (1)
Maximum amount of anisotropic filtering used.

Returns

Nothing.

Examples

local font = love.graphics.newFont(40)
font:setFilter("linear", "nearest")

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.setFont(font)
	love.graphics.print("Hello", 100,100, 0, .5) -- Scaled down.
	love.graphics.print("World", 100,116, 0, 2)  -- Scaled up.
end

Pixalated font

File `pixelfont-11p.png`:

pixelfont-11p.png

main.lua:

local filename =  'pixelfont-11p.png'
local glyphs = " abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" ..
    "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0" ..
    "123456789.,!?-+/():;%&`'*#=[]\""

local fontImageData = love.image.newImageData(filename)
local font11p = love.graphics.newImageFont(fontImageData, glyphs)
font11p:setFilter( 'nearest', 'nearest' )

function love.draw ()
	love.graphics.setFont(font11p)
	love.graphics.print (glyphs, 0, 12)
	love.graphics.scale (2)
	love.graphics.print (glyphs, 0, 12)
	love.graphics.scale (2)
	love.graphics.print (glyphs, 0, 12)
	love.graphics.scale (2)
	love.graphics.print (glyphs, 0, 12)
end

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