TTF_SetFontHinting(3)

✨ TTF_SetFontHinting ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is a lil function in the SDL_ttf 3 crew and it's giving "make my font look crunchy or smooth, your call" 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

TTF_SetFontHinting — set a font's current hinter setting. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 🫶

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📁 HEADER FILE 📁

she lives in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h, no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

void TTF_SetFontHinting(TTF_Font *font, TTF_HintingFlags hinting);

like. look at her. so simple. so powerful. ⭐

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie: this function switches up the hinter setting on a font, and the moment you do it, two things go down:

• it updates any TTF_Text objects that are using this font 👀
• and it clears already-generated glyphs, if there were any, straight out of the cache 🧹✨

the hinter setting is a single value, and you pick ONE of these icons:

• TTF_HINTING_NORMAL
• TTF_HINTING_LIGHT
• TTF_HINTING_MONO
• TTF_HINTING_NONE
• TTF_HINTING_LIGHT_SUBPIXEL — this one's the new girl, available in SDL_ttf 3.0.0 and later 👑

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🔧 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🔧

• font — the font you're setting a new hinter setting on. your main character. 💜
• hinting — the new hinter setting. the glow-up itself. ✨

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🧵 THREAD SAFETY 🧵

bestie, listen to me. call this on the thread that created the font. do NOT be out here calling it from some random thread, i am begging 🙈

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this function has been around since SDL_ttf 3.0.0. she's not new, she's just iconic. 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• •(3)
• TTF_GetFontHinting(3) — the lil sister that reads the setting back, obsessed with her fr fr

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that's the whole page, you ate it, go forth and hint responsibly 🦋💖

— with love from the SDL_ttf manual, version 3.2.2, mwah 💅🎀