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Hello!

I've been using a plain ol' spritesheet font for a while now, and besides making people's eyes bleed with my subpar monospaced fonts, it's worked pretty well thus far.

However, in an effort to reduce the amount of eye bloodloss, I figured I'd look into AngelCode fonts. I've managed to put together a font that looks ok, but I can't seem to figure out how to disable anti aliasing when drawing. Is it even possible? Is this the case with unicode fonts aswell?

If disabling antialiasing isn't possible, are there any other viable alternatives for drawing non-monospaced fonts?

AngelCodeFont is a "bitmap font" in the sense that the glyphs are just a simple image file; Slick isn't anti-aliasing or doing anything else to the font image while rendering it.

The latest dev branch includes a menu option in Hiero to disable anti-aliasing. Unfortunately, the AWT font renderer is not optimal for small pixel fonts (like this one). The solution is to use TWL's font tool which can handle smaller fonts without anti-aliasing, and save as text format (which will be loadable by Slick).

Edit: It seems that it's the scaling that's the problem, not the font being anti aliased. I guess my next question then would be: is it possible to scale an AngelCodeFont as easily as a SpriteSheetFont, without it becoming blurry in the process?


Hmm, I'm not sure I understand, or I must be doing something wrong. I've tried making a new font with the fonttool, and the image it produces looks fine; no blurryness in the font image.

Here's how it looks like when being rendered:



I guess it's worth mentioning that everything is scaled 300%, would that affect AngelCodeFonts differently than SpriteSheetFonts? Also, how/where do I fumble around with Hiero settings? Would that affect anything in this case?

Oh, and a sincere thank you for helping me, I really appreciate it.

Ah, the blur there is due to bilinear scaling. Try using this when creating your font:

Oh god, how did I miss that

Thanks a lot for your help and patience, you've saved the day!