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Matthew Albrecht edited this page May 23, 2019 · 1 revision

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Fonts in Acid use a signed distance field texture along with a Angle Code descriptor file. These files can be generated using the Fonts tool provided in Acid Tools or alternatively using Hiero

Tool Creation

  • Download Acid Tools
  • Select a folder where outputs will be added
  • Drag your .otf font onto the window (not text box)
  • If more than one .png is generated with the font reduce Padding (second slider) until all text fits on one page

Hiero Creation

  • Download Hiero
  • Choose a font, and change rendering to Java
  • Change the text format to ASCII
  • Under the font panel set the size to 34, or when the text fits on one page
  • Change the padding values to 8
  • Remove the color effect and add a distance field with a scale of 15 and spread of 10.0
  • Save BMFont

Acid Usage

Using your new fonts in Acid is fairly straight forward, the image above shows how Proxima Nova is saved (note: the .otf files are not required). Remove the type name from the .png and .fnt so only the style type is left (ex: Bold.fnt and Bold.png), and add to a new resource folder of the type name.

Usage in Acid will follow type name, style as shown below:

FontType::Create("Fonts/ProximaNova", "Regular")
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