Fonts

This section deals with the functions available for fonts.

GameMaker: Studio has a number of functions that can be used to get information about the included font assets, as well as a further set of functions that can be used to change, add or remove fonts from your game at run-time. In particular the function font_add() can be used to add non-standard fonts, like Asian glyph fonts, in *.ttf format.

It is worth noting is that if you add a font to your game that doesn't have the glyphs required by the text you wish to write, then the unicode character 9647 (▯) is used to substitute those missing glyphs when rendering it in the draw event. So if your font doesn't have, for example, the ° symbol, then writing 90° will actually produce 90▯.

Font Information

The following functions can be used to get information about font resources:

1. font_get_name
   
2. font_get_fontname
   
3. font_get_first
   
4. font_get_last
   
5. font_get_italic
   
6. font_get_bold
   
7. font_get_size
   
8. font_get_texture
   
9. font_get_uvs
   

Font Manipulation

The following functions can be used to change and manipulate fonts during a game:

1. font_set_cache_size
   
2. font_exists
   
3. font_add
   
4. font_add_sprite
   
5. font_add_sprite_ext
   
6. font_replace
   
7. font_replace_sprite
   
8. font_replace_sprite_ext
   
9. font_delete
   

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