al_load_ttf_font(3)

🎀 al_load_ttf_font — Allegro 5 API 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the allegro_ttf.h corner of the Allegro 5 API — this one's called al_load_ttf_font and it's literally the glow-up your text rendering has been waiting for 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro5/allegro_ttf.h>

ALLEGRO_FONT *al_load_ttf_font(char const *filename, int size, int flags)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So what it does is load a TrueType font from a file, and it does it using the FreeType library 🧚 Quoting the FreeType FAQ (yes, we're quoting, it's giving citation queen), that means it's got support for so many different font formats, like:

TrueType, OpenType, Type1, CID, CFF, Windows FON/FNT, X11 PCF, and others 🌈

The size parameter? That's the size the font gets rendered at, and it's specified in pixels. The standard font size is measured in units per EM — but ngl, if you instead wanna specify the size as the total height of glyphs in pixels, just pass it as a negative value and you're so valid for that 🫶

📌 Note: if you want to display text at multiple sizes, load the font multiple times with different size parameters. No cap — one font handle, one size, that's the vibe.

The following flags are supported:

• ALLEGRO_TTF_NO_KERNING — do not use any kerning, even if the font file itself supports it. like, zero kerning, none, we're not doing that today 🙈
• ALLEGRO_TTF_MONOCHROME — load as a monochrome font, which means no anti-aliasing of the font is done at all. crunchy pixels, main character energy 💀
• ALLEGRO_TTF_NO_AUTOHINT — disables the Auto Hinter, which is enabled by default in newer versions of FreeType. Since: 5.0.6, 5.1.2 ⭐

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• al_init_ttf_addon(3)
• al_load_ttf_font_f(3)

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go read those too, iykyk 👑 and that's the whole page, bestie — from the Allegro reference manual, signed off with so much love from your girl al_load_ttf_font(3) 💜🦋🍓