Why fonts look so strange? May be I do something wrong?

romka

In attach you can find the screenshot. Upper word is a sprite, lower word is a TextWrap which uses font Biko:

local font = TTFont.new('resources/fonts/ttf/Biko_Regular.ttf', 24, nil, true) self.level = TextWrap.new('Level', 100, 'left', 2, font)

I also tried to use class Font instead of TTFont with the font generated by GiderosFontCreator from the same file Biko_Regular.ttf. But in this case result were even worse then on screenshot.

How to make text in textfield look better? In nearby topic I found the game Cosmo Ship and fonts in this game looks great!

unlying

Try it in same resolution in player and in application.

romka

This screenshot was made in Gideros Player on my Samsung Galaxy S4 (resolution 1080x1920). These two words I put near each other on screen, it means that these two words from one screenshot, not from different.

tkhnoman

I'm not sure what is the problem, but i also use Gideros Font Creator for Cosmo Ship, with font size at 50, then i do something like text:setScale(size / 50,size / 50) to set fontsize.

petec

@romka I've no idea what happens in TextWrap as I don't use it but I've had similar problems with ttf fonts when the position of the text is not a whole number - often caused by me using self.textLine:getWidth()/2 to centre the text. If the width of the text is an odd number then width/2 will be something and a half. I find if I do math.floor(self.textLine:getWidth()/2) to keep the x position a whole number the text displays cleanly. Could something like that be causing the problem inside TextWrap?

ar2rsawseen

Also try creating font without nil, like:

local font = TTFont.new('resources/fonts/ttf/Biko_Regular.ttf', 24, true)

And yes another is the positioning, use only full pixels, without decimal parts

romka

Guys, thank you for your answers. This problem was because I set scale for TextWrap object to values from 0.5 to 2. Now if I need to resize text block I change value of font size in TTFont.new() and fonts look good.