How to change style while rendering freetype.Font

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I want to be able to use bold or italic styles while rendering with pygame.freetype.Font, but it turns out freetype.Font.render doesen’t take any bold or italic keyword arguments.
Instead it takes a style argument. I’m not sure how to use this though, please help me.

import pygame
from pygame import freetype
freetype.init()

font = freetype.Font(“fontfile.ttf”,50)

win = pygame.display.set_mode((500,500))



while True:
    for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type == pygame.quit():
            quit()
    
    text,rect = font.render(“TEXT”,(255,255,255),style=?????)
    win.fill((0,0,0))
    win.blit(text,rect)
    pygame.display.update()

Asked By: xxSirFartAlotxx

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Answer 1

to create bold text you can pass the pygame.freetype.STYLE_STRONG constant:

text, rect = font.render("TEXT", (255, 255, 255), style=pygame.freetype.STYLE_STRONG)

To create italic text you can pass the pygame.freetype.STYLE_ITALIC constant:

text, rect = font.render("TEXT", (255, 255, 255), style=pygame.freetype.STYLE_ITALIC)

If you want to create text that is both bold and italic, you can pass the result of a bitwise OR operation on these two constants:

text, rect = font.render("TEXT", (255, 255, 255), style=pygame.freetype.STYLE_STRONG | pygame.freetype.STYLE_ITALIC)

This will create text that is both bold and italic.

Answered By: Sullivan

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