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AlGrande
AlGrande

Reputation: 187

LibGDX (Freetype) font ugly and unreadably

I'm using a Freetype font to display text. But the font always looks: #1 Unreadable(throught decreasing the font size): Unreadable 

        generator = new FreeTypeFontGenerator(Gdx.files.internal("Fonts/LDFComicSans.ttf"));
        FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeFontParameter parameter = new FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeFontParameter();
        parameter.size = 5;
        font = generator.generateFont(parameter); // font size 12 pixels
        font.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        font.getRegion().getTexture().setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Linear, Texture.TextureFilter.Linear);
        generator.dispose();

or #2 Ugly(through scaling): Ugky

generator = new FreeTypeFontGenerator(Gdx.files.internal("Fonts/LDFComicSans.ttf"));
FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeFontParameter parameter = new FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeFontParameter();
parameter.size = 30;
font = generator.generateFont(parameter); // font size 12 pixels
font.setColor(Color.BLACK);
font.getData().setScale(0.15F, 0.15F);
font.getRegion().getTexture().setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Linear, Texture.TextureFilter.Linear);
generator.dispose();

These are the camera/viewport settings I use:

  camera = new OrthographicCamera(1280, 720);
        batch = new SpriteBatch();
        viewport = new StretchViewport(100,100,camera);
        viewport.apply();

I think it's because the viewport is too small but I really don't want to change it. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1243

Answers (1)

Tenfour04
Tenfour04

Reputation: 93591

Following your #2 version, call setUseIntegerPositions(false) on the font. By default it rounds character positions to the nearest integer, which looks terrible with a tiny viewport. You may want to give it mip maps and use MipMapLinearLinear for the min filter to compensate for the characters not being aligned with screen pixels (to reduce blurriness).

Upvotes: 5

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