ALLEGRO_FONT(3)

💅 ALLEGRO_FONT 💅

okay so this is a page from the Allegro reference manual, and we're talking about the Allegro 5 API today bestie, pls stay with me 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ALLEGRO_FONT — literally the Allegro 5 API's font handle, no cap 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h>

typedef struct ALLEGRO_FONT ALLEGRO_FONT;

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So ALLEGRO_FONT is a handle that identifies, like, any kind of font — it's giving "one struct to rule them all" main character energy 💅

Usually you'll create it with al_load_font(3), and the way that works is it supports loading all kinds of TrueType fonts supported by the FreeType library. Slay, FreeType ate that 🔥

But lowkey there's a plot twist 👀 — if you instead pass the filename of a bitmap file, it gets loaded with al_load_bitmap(3) and then a font in Allegro's bitmap font format gets created from it with al_grab_font_from_bitmap(3). So yeah, bitmap filename in, fancy Allegro bitmap font out, periodt ✨

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🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

fr fr that's the whole page — straight from the Allegro reference manual, filed under ALLEGRO_FONT(3). Go make something iconic with it 💖🌈⭐