Write text in bold

anthony20

Hi everyone.

I need to write text in bold on the screen of my computer, but I don´t know how.

If anyone can help, thanks in advance.

koogs

String[] fontList = PFont.list();
println(fontList);

does this list any bold fonts?

koogs

mine does (linux):

[1] "Arial"
[2] "Arial Black"
[3] "Arial Bold"
[4] "Arial Bold Italic"
[5] "Arial Italic"
[6] "Bitstream Charter"
[7] "Bitstream Charter Bold"
[8] "Bitstream Charter Bold Italic"
[9] "Bitstream Charter Italic"
[10] "Century Schoolbook L Bold"
[11] "Century Schoolbook L Bold Italic"
[12] "Century Schoolbook L Italic"
[13] "Century Schoolbook L Roman"
...

just use createFont with one of those.

clair

Mine too - also on Linux (Mint 15) p. 2.0.3

koogs

there are caveats - if you're exporting for other systems (either other operating systems or just other pcs) you have to be careful about choosing a font that'll exist over there, so don't pick anything too esoteric.

the other alternative is converting a bold font to .vlw format (there's a tool for this), putting that in the data folder and using loadFont(). see reference for examples.

anthony20

Thanks for the help. I've already managed to put text in bold.

PFont Font1;
void setup() {
  Font1 = createFont("Arial Bold", 18);
}
void draw() 
{
textFont(Font1);
 text("Hi", 10, 30);
}