Font Editor

Our Font Editor gives you a number of options for styling the fonts you use in your games. All fonts in Stencyl are bitmap fonts. There is currently no way to draw using the "system" font or otherwise.

Fonts are considered as a resource type in Stencyl. Therefore, to open up the Font Editor, you either need to create a new Font resource, download one from StencylForge, or open an existing one up from the Dashboard.

Contents

• How to: Draw Text
• How To: Creating a Font
• The Interface
• Style
• Color
• Stroke
• Shadows
• The Future

How To: Drawing Text

Read our article on drawing text to learn how that's done in Stencyl.

How To: Creating a Font

1) File > Create New > Font

2) Give the a font a name.

That's it! The Font Editor will open up.

The Interface

Edit properties on the left. Live preview is on the right.

Style

• Character Set - Useful if you just want only letters or only numbers to appear
• Font - This is where you choose the font file. You have preset fonts if you want something fast, but you can also choose custom fonts. For more about custom fonts, see importing fonts
• Size - The font size
• Style - Bold, Italic, Both, or Normal
• Smoothing - Choosing no will make the font appear aliased, which is useful for pixely looking fonts.

Color

• Color - You can select any color for your font. Clicking on the option opens the color chooser window.
• Gradient Color - Allows you to blend the first and second colors together vertically in your font.
• Gradient Offset - Lets you decide how low or how high the gradient color should be, affecting the intensity of the blend.

Stroke

The stroke option allows you to highlight your font with a specific color and at a specific magnitude.

Shadows

Adding a shadow effect creates a copy of the drawn text with that font, offset x and y pixels away, and blurred at a specific magnitude. This is used to make the characters appear three-dimensional due to the depth between the text and the shadow. Below is an example of basic settings for a shadow effect.

The Future

More options, including options for spacing will be available starting in Stencyl 2.6. Our current options are held down by having to maintain different Web and Mobile engines. When we unify them, we'll be able to offer a lot more in this area.

gintasdx
Not all default fonts works in 2.2(b502) so solution is to make a new font without outline or blur.
0 6 months, 1 week ago

igneois
I guess ill poke around and hopefully stumble upon the font editor...whereever it may be... perhaps its by the code editor... in Narnia
0 1 year, 1 month ago

thugzook
I've noticed that putting text into our scenes extremely difficult.. is there an easier way to put it in?
1 1 year, 10 months ago

Maxskywalker
Okay, okay. But how do we actually type text into our scenes?
4 1 year, 11 months ago

MarcoI88
How can we do for use \n character?
I have tried but it is not possible to go to a new line with a font.
0 1 year, 11 months ago

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