Font

FONT* name = "filename";

FONT* name = "fontname#size(style)";

Defines a fixed width character font out of an image file, or a proportional font from a truetype file. For the image file format, the same restrictions as for bmap apply. The bitmap must either contain 11 characters - numbers 0..9 and space - for numerical displays, or 32x4 or 32x8 characters for alphanumerical text.

Parameters:

name	name of the font
filename	name of the font bitmap file
fontname	name of the truetype font. Fonts existing on all Windows machines are "Arial", "Times", and "Courier".
style	style of the truetype font, omit = normal, b = bold, i = italics, bi = bold + italics
size	the height of a truetype character in points

Remarks:

The sequence of alphanumerical characters in the bitmap must correspond to the character set used by the script, either DOS/ASCII or Windows/ANSI. In the bitmap, the characters may be ordered in four or eight rows. The bitmap size must exactly be either 11 times, 128 times, or 256 times the given character size.
Use font_create() for creating a font at runtime.

Examples:

FONT* panel_font = "ventfont.pcx"; // panel text font
FONT* arial_font = "Arial#20b"; // truetype font

See also:

bmap, sound, font_create, file formats ► latest version online