You need to use the css-property font-face to declare your font. Have a look at this fancy site: http://www.font-face.com/ Example: @font-face { font-family: MyHelvetica; src: local(“Helvetica Neue Bold”), local(“HelveticaNeue-Bold”), url(MgOpenModernaBold.ttf); font-weight: bold; } See also: MDN @font-face
After working with Fonts for some time, I can see 6 ways to do fonts in WebGL, all with advantages and disadvantages: Font as Geometry Get an open source font like the ones from Google (Open Sans and Roboto are very popular) Read out the curves of the font using OpenType or similar (https://nodebox.github.io/opentype.js/) Triangulate … Read more
So as I mentioned in my question above, Internet Explorer has some ttf support starting with version 9, but “only working when [fonts are] set to be installable”. Some background: …TrueType fonts have embedding “bits” which allow the creator of the font to decide the level of embedding that will be permitted. There are four … Read more
I have used this library: fontastic font maker And that is how it works: How to create a new Fontastic object: Fontastic f = new Fontastic(this, “ExampleFont”); // Create a new Fontastic object How to set further font properties: f.setAuthor(“Andreas Koller”); // Set author name – will be saved in TTF file too How to … Read more
I’ve successfully created a few icon fonts for my websites and the Inkscape FontForge approach as outlined in this how-to is pretty solid, and if you’re used to using software such as Inkscape, it’s also pretty easy too. Here’s the steps I take: Preparation (using Inkscape in this example) Open the Inkscape document that holds … Read more
If you want to stick to LaTeX, you can generally try these steps: Create the TeX font metrics (tfm), the font description (fd) and the font mapping (map). Using ttf2tfm to generate .vpl, then vptovf to create .tfm. Put the files (ttf, tfm, fd, map) into the proper directories in the local texmf tree. Update … Read more
FontSquirrel’s Webfont generator makes it very easy to reduce a font’s filesize. Upload your font Choose Expert… Choose which glyphs to include Press Download Your Kit I was able to take a 263kb font down to 34kb.
Yes you will definitely need to add the gdx-stb-truetype jars to your project as you stated in your edit. Here is how you will use it, pretty straighforward… First you need to declare your BitmapFont and the characters you will use… BitmapFont font; public static final String FONT_CHARACTERS = “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789][_!$%#@|\\/?-+=()*&.;,{}\”´`'<>”; Then you need to create … Read more
Here or even here you can find the solutions for you. It’s all about baseline. Note There’s a problem with installing Apple Fonts Utility on El Capitan. See https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211138/apple-font-tools-cannot-install-in-macbook-pro-el-capitan for a workaround. To edit these in the font you will need to download the Apple Font Tool Suite. Once you’ve installed this you need to … Read more