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<section id="module-pygame.font">
<span id="pygame-font"></span><dl class="definition">
<dt class="title module sig sig-object">
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.font</span></code></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">pygame module for loading and rendering fonts</span></div>
</div>
<table class="toc docutils align-default">
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<col style="width: 1%" />
<col style="width: 60%" />
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<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.init">pygame.font.init</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>initialize the font module</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.quit">pygame.font.quit</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>uninitialize the font module</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.get_init">pygame.font.get_init</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>true if the font module is initialized</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.get_default_font">pygame.font.get_default_font</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>get the filename of the default font</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.get_sdl_ttf_version">pygame.font.get_sdl_ttf_version</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>gets SDL_ttf version</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.get_fonts">pygame.font.get_fonts</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>get all available fonts</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.match_font">pygame.font.match_font</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>find a specific font on the system</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.SysFont">pygame.font.SysFont</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>create a Font object from the system fonts</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font">pygame.font.Font</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>create a new Font object from a file</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The font module allows for rendering TrueType fonts into Surface objects.
This module is built on top of the SDL_ttf library, which comes with all
normal pygame installations.</p>
<p>Most of the work done with fonts are done by using the actual Font objects.
The module by itself only has routines to support the creation of Font objects
with <a class="tooltip reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font" title=""><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.font.Font()</span></code><span class="tooltip-content">create a new Font object from a file</span></a>.</p>
<p>You can load fonts from the system by using the <a class="tooltip reference internal" href="#pygame.font.SysFont" title=""><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.font.SysFont()</span></code><span class="tooltip-content">create a Font object from the system fonts</span></a>
function. There are a few other functions to help look up the system fonts.</p>
<p>Pygame comes with a builtin default font, freesansbold. This can always be
accessed by passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> as the font name.</p>
<p>Before pygame 2.0.3, pygame.font accepts any UCS-2 / UTF-16 character
('\u0001' to '\uFFFF'). After 2.0.3, pygame.font built with SDL_ttf
2.0.15 accepts any valid UCS-4 / UTF-32 character
(like emojis, if the font has them) ('\U00000001' to '\U0010FFFF')).
More about this in <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.render" title="pygame.font.Font.render"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Font.render()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>Before pygame 2.0.3, this character space restriction can be avoided by
using the <a class="tooltip reference internal" href="freetype.html#module-pygame.freetype" title=""><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.freetype</span></code><span class="tooltip-content">Enhanced pygame module for loading and rendering computer fonts</span></a> based <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.ftfont</span></code> to emulate the Font
module. This can be used by defining the environment variable PYGAME_FREETYPE
before the first import of <a class="tooltip reference internal" href="pygame.html#module-pygame" title=""><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame</span></code><span class="tooltip-content">the top level pygame package</span></a>. Since the problem <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.ftfont</span></code>
solves no longer exists, it will likely be removed in the future.</p>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.init">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">init</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.init" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">initialize the font module</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">init() -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p>This method is called automatically by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.init()</span></code>. It initializes the
font module. The module must be initialized before any other functions will
work.</p>
<p>It is safe to call this function more than once.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.quit">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">quit</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.quit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">uninitialize the font module</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">quit() -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p>Manually uninitialize SDL_ttf's font system. This is called automatically by
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.quit()</span></code>.</p>
<p>It is safe to call this function even if font is currently not initialized.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.get_init">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_init</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.get_init" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">true if the font module is initialized</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_init() -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Test if the font module is initialized or not.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.get_default_font">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_default_font</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.get_default_font" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">get the filename of the default font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_default_font() -> string</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return the filename of the system font. This is not the full path to the
file. This file can usually be found in the same directory as the font
module, but it can also be bundled in separate archives.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.get_sdl_ttf_version">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_sdl_ttf_version</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.get_sdl_ttf_version" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">gets SDL_ttf version</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_sdl_ttf_version(linked=True) -> (major, minor, patch)</span></div>
</div>
<p><strong>Experimental:</strong> feature still in development available for testing and feedback. It may change.
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pygame/pygame/pull/3095">Please leave get_sdl_ttf_version feedback with authors</a></p>
<p>Returns a tuple of integers that identify SDL_ttf's version.
SDL_ttf is the underlying font rendering library, written in C,
on which pygame's font module depends. If 'linked' is True (the default),
the function returns the version of the linked TTF library.
Otherwise this function returns the version of TTF pygame was compiled with</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.1.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.get_fonts">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_fonts</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.get_fonts" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">get all available fonts</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_fonts() -> list of strings</span></div>
</div>
<p>Returns a list of all the fonts available on the system. The names of the
fonts will be set to lowercase with all spaces and punctuation removed. This
works on most systems, but some will return an empty list if they cannot
find fonts.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in pygame 2.1.3: </span>Checks through user fonts instead of just global fonts for Windows.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.match_font">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">match_font</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.match_font" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">find a specific font on the system</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">match_font(name, bold=False, italic=False) -> path</span></div>
</div>
<p>Returns the full path to a font file on the system. If bold or italic are
set to true, this will attempt to find the correct family of font.</p>
<p>The font name can also be an iterable of font names, a string of
comma-separated font names, or a bytes of comma-separated font names, in
which case the set of names will be searched in order.
If none of the given names are found, None is returned.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.0.1: </span>Accept an iterable of font names.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in pygame 2.1.3: </span>Checks through user fonts instead of just global fonts for Windows.</p>
</div>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">print</span> <span class="n">pygame</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">font</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">match_font</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'bitstreamverasans'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># output is: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf</span>
<span class="c1"># (but only if you have Vera on your system)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py function definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.SysFont">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SysFont</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.SysFont" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">create a Font object from the system fonts</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">SysFont(name, size, bold=False, italic=False) -> Font</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return a new Font object that is loaded from the system fonts. The font will
match the requested bold and italic flags. Pygame uses a small set of common
font aliases. If the specific font you ask for is not available, a reasonable
alternative may be used. If a suitable system font is not found this will
fall back on loading the default pygame font.</p>
<p>The font name can also be an iterable of font names, a string of
comma-separated font names, or a bytes of comma-separated font names, in
which case the set of names will be searched in order.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.0.1: </span>Accept an iterable of font names.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in pygame 2.1.3: </span>Checks through user fonts instead of just global fonts for Windows.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py class definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">pygame.font.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">Font</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">create a new Font object from a file</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">Font(file_path=None, size=12) -> Font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">Font(file_path, size) -> Font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">Font(pathlib.Path, size) -> Font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">Font(object, size) -> Font</span></div>
</div>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.bold">pygame.font.Font.bold</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered in (faked) bold.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.italic">pygame.font.Font.italic</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered in (faked) italics.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.underline">pygame.font.Font.underline</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered with an underline.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.strikethrough">pygame.font.Font.strikethrough</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered with a strikethrough.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.render">pygame.font.Font.render</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>draw text on a new Surface</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.size">pygame.font.Font.size</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>determine the amount of space needed to render text</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.set_underline">pygame.font.Font.set_underline</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>control if text is rendered with an underline</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_underline">pygame.font.Font.get_underline</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>check if text will be rendered with an underline</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.set_strikethrough">pygame.font.Font.set_strikethrough</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>control if text is rendered with a strikethrough</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_strikethrough">pygame.font.Font.get_strikethrough</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>check if text will be rendered with a strikethrough</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.set_bold">pygame.font.Font.set_bold</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>enable fake rendering of bold text</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_bold">pygame.font.Font.get_bold</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>check if text will be rendered bold</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.set_italic">pygame.font.Font.set_italic</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>enable fake rendering of italic text</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.metrics">pygame.font.Font.metrics</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>gets the metrics for each character in the passed string</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_italic">pygame.font.Font.get_italic</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>check if the text will be rendered italic</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_linesize">pygame.font.Font.get_linesize</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>get the line space of the font text</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_height">pygame.font.Font.get_height</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>get the height of the font</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_ascent">pygame.font.Font.get_ascent</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>get the ascent of the font</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.get_descent">pygame.font.Font.get_descent</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>get the descent of the font</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><div class="line"><a class="toc reference external" href="font.html#pygame.font.Font.set_script">pygame.font.Font.set_script</a></div>
</td>
<td>—</td>
<td>set the script code for text shaping</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Load a new font from a given filename or a python file object. The size is
the height of the font in pixels. If the filename is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> the pygame
default font will be loaded. If a font cannot be loaded from the arguments
given an exception will be raised. Once the font is created the size cannot
be changed. If no arguments are given then the default font will be used and
a font size of 12 is used.</p>
<p>Font objects are mainly used to render text into new Surface objects. The
render can emulate bold or italic features, but it is better to load from a
font with actual italic or bold glyphs.</p>
<dl class="py attribute definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.bold">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">bold</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.bold" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered in (faked) bold.</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">bold -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Whether the font should be rendered in bold.</p>
<p>When set to True, this enables the bold rendering of text. This
is a fake stretching of the font that doesn't look good on many
font types. If possible load the font from a real bold font
file. While bold, the font will have a different width than when
normal. This can be mixed with the italic, underline and
strikethrough modes.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.0.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py attribute definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.italic">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">italic</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.italic" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered in (faked) italics.</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">italic -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Whether the font should be rendered in italic.</p>
<p>When set to True, this enables fake rendering of italic
text. This is a fake skewing of the font that doesn't look good
on many font types. If possible load the font from a real italic
font file. While italic the font will have a different width
than when normal. This can be mixed with the bold, underline and
strikethrough modes.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.0.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py attribute definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.underline">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">underline</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.underline" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered with an underline.</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">underline -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Whether the font should be rendered in underline.</p>
<p>When set to True, all rendered fonts will include an
underline. The underline is always one pixel thick, regardless
of font size. This can be mixed with the bold, italic and
strikethrough modes.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.0.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py attribute definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.strikethrough">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">strikethrough</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.strikethrough" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">Gets or sets whether the font should be rendered with a strikethrough.</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">strikethrough -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Whether the font should be rendered with a strikethrough.</p>
<p>When set to True, all rendered fonts will include an
strikethrough. The strikethrough is always one pixel thick,
regardless of font size. This can be mixed with the bold,
italic and underline modes.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.1.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.render">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">render</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.render" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">draw text on a new Surface</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">render(text, antialias, color, background=None) -> Surface</span></div>
</div>
<p>This creates a new Surface with the specified text rendered on it.
<a class="tooltip reference internal" href="#module-pygame.font" title=""><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pygame.font</span></code><span class="tooltip-content">pygame module for loading and rendering fonts</span></a> provides no way to directly draw text on an existing
Surface: instead you must use <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.render" title="pygame.font.Font.render"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Font.render()</span></code></a> to create an image
(Surface) of the text, then blit this image onto another Surface.</p>
<p>The text can only be a single line: newline characters are not rendered.
Null characters ('x00') raise a TypeError. Both Unicode and char (byte)
strings are accepted. For Unicode strings only UCS-2 characters
('\u0001' to '\uFFFF') were previously supported and any greater
unicode codepoint would raise a UnicodeError. Now, characters in the
UCS-4 range are supported. For char strings a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LATIN1</span></code> encoding is
assumed. The antialias argument is a boolean: if True the characters
will have smooth edges. The color argument is the color of the text
[e.g.: (0,0,255) for blue]. The optional background argument is a color
to use for the text background. If no background is passed the area
outside the text will be transparent.</p>
<p>The Surface returned will be of the dimensions required to hold the text.
(the same as those returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.size" title="pygame.font.Font.size"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Font.size()</span></code></a>). If an empty string is passed
for the text, a blank surface will be returned that is zero pixel wide and
the height of the font.</p>
<p>Depending on the type of background and antialiasing used, this returns
different types of Surfaces. For performance reasons, it is good to know
what type of image will be used. If antialiasing is not used, the return
image will always be an 8-bit image with a two-color palette. If the
background is transparent a colorkey will be set. Antialiased images are
rendered to 24-bit <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">RGB</span></code> images. If the background is transparent a
pixel alpha will be included.</p>
<p>Optimization: if you know that the final destination for the text (on the
screen) will always have a solid background, and the text is antialiased,
you can improve performance by specifying the background color. This will
cause the resulting image to maintain transparency information by
colorkey rather than (much less efficient) alpha values.</p>
<p>If you render '\n' an unknown char will be rendered. Usually a
rectangle. Instead you need to handle newlines yourself.</p>
<p>Font rendering is not thread safe: only a single thread can render text
at any time.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in pygame 2.0.3: </span>Rendering UCS4 unicode works and does not
raise an exception. Use <cite>if hasattr(pygame.font, "UCS4"):</cite> to see if
pygame supports rendering UCS4 unicode including more languages and
emoji.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.size">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">size</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.size" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">determine the amount of space needed to render text</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">size(text) -> (width, height)</span></div>
</div>
<p>Returns the dimensions needed to render the text. This can be used to
help determine the positioning needed for text before it is rendered. It
can also be used for word wrapping and other layout effects.</p>
<p>Be aware that most fonts use kerning which adjusts the widths for
specific letter pairs. For example, the width for "ae" will not always
match the width for "a" + "e".</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.set_underline">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_underline</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.set_underline" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">control if text is rendered with an underline</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">set_underline(bool) -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p>When enabled, all rendered fonts will include an underline. The underline
is always one pixel thick, regardless of font size. This can be mixed
with the bold, italic and strikethrough modes.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.underline" title="pygame.font.Font.underline"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">underline</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_underline">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_underline</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_underline" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">check if text will be rendered with an underline</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_underline() -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return True when the font underline is enabled.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.underline" title="pygame.font.Font.underline"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">underline</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.set_strikethrough">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_strikethrough</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.set_strikethrough" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">control if text is rendered with a strikethrough</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">set_strikethrough(bool) -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p>When enabled, all rendered fonts will include a strikethrough. The
strikethrough is always one pixel thick, regardless of font size.
This can be mixed with the bold, italic and underline modes.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.strikethrough" title="pygame.font.Font.strikethrough"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strikethrough</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.1.3.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_strikethrough">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_strikethrough</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_strikethrough" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">check if text will be rendered with a strikethrough</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_strikethrough() -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return True when the font strikethrough is enabled.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.strikethrough" title="pygame.font.Font.strikethrough"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strikethrough</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.1.3.</span></p>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.set_bold">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_bold</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.set_bold" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">enable fake rendering of bold text</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">set_bold(bool) -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p>Enables the bold rendering of text. This is a fake stretching of the font
that doesn't look good on many font types. If possible load the font from
a real bold font file. While bold, the font will have a different width
than when normal. This can be mixed with the italic, underline and
strikethrough modes.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.bold" title="pygame.font.Font.bold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bold</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_bold">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_bold</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_bold" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">check if text will be rendered bold</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_bold() -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return True when the font bold rendering mode is enabled.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.bold" title="pygame.font.Font.bold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bold</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.set_italic">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_italic</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.set_italic" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">enable fake rendering of italic text</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">set_italic(bool) -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p>Enables fake rendering of italic text. This is a fake skewing of the font
that doesn't look good on many font types. If possible load the font from
a real italic font file. While italic the font will have a different
width than when normal. This can be mixed with the bold, underline and
strikethrough modes.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.italic" title="pygame.font.Font.italic"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">italic</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.metrics">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">metrics</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.metrics" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">gets the metrics for each character in the passed string</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">metrics(text) -> list</span></div>
</div>
<p>The list contains tuples for each character, which contain the minimum
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">X</span></code> offset, the maximum <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">X</span></code> offset, the minimum <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Y</span></code> offset, the
maximum <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Y</span></code> offset and the advance offset (bearing plus width) of the
character. [(minx, maxx, miny, maxy, advance), (minx, maxx, miny, maxy,
advance), ...]. None is entered in the list for each unrecognized
character.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_italic">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_italic</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_italic" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">check if the text will be rendered italic</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_italic() -> bool</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return True when the font italic rendering mode is enabled.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This is the same as the <a class="reference internal" href="#pygame.font.Font.italic" title="pygame.font.Font.italic"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">italic</span></code></a> attribute.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_linesize">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_linesize</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_linesize" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">get the line space of the font text</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_linesize() -> int</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return the height in pixels for a line of text with the font. When
rendering multiple lines of text this is the recommended amount of space
between lines.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_height">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_height</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_height" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">get the height of the font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_height() -> int</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return the height in pixels of the actual rendered text. This is the
average size for each glyph in the font.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_ascent">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_ascent</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_ascent" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">get the ascent of the font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_ascent() -> int</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return the height in pixels for the font ascent. The ascent is the number
of pixels from the font baseline to the top of the font.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.get_descent">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_descent</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.get_descent" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">get the descent of the font</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">get_descent() -> int</span></div>
</div>
<p>Return the height in pixels for the font descent. The descent is the
number of pixels from the font baseline to the bottom of the font.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py method definition">
<dt class="sig sig-object py title" id="pygame.font.Font.set_script">
<span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_script</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pygame.font.Font.set_script" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><div class="line-block">
<div class="line"><span class="summaryline">set the script code for text shaping</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="signature">set_script(str) -> None</span></div>
</div>
<p><strong>Experimental:</strong> feature still in development available for testing and feedback. It may change.
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pygame/pygame/pull/3330">Please leave feedback with authors</a></p>
<p>Sets the script used by harfbuzz text shaping, taking a 4 character
script code as input. For example, Hindi is written in the Devanagari
script, for which the script code is <cite>"Deva"</cite>. See the full list of
script codes in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html">ISO 15924</a>.</p>
<p>This method requires pygame built with SDL_ttf 2.20.0 or above. Otherwise the
method will raise a pygame.error.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in pygame 2.2.0.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
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