More Fonts by Michiel

Introducing More Fonts: a library to print large text using teletext pixels with various fonts, sizes, and text wrapping and spacing options!

Basic usage

Use the print function to print some text at the current cursor location:

local mf = require("morefonts")

term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(2, 2)
term.setTextColor(colors.yellow)
term.setBackgroundColor(colors.gray)

mf.print("Hey!")

If you don't want it to end on a new line, use write instead of print:

mf.write("Hi!")

If you want to print on a terminal at a specified location (x, y) without it scrolling when it gets to the bottom of the screen, use writeOn instead:

mf.writeOn(term, "Hey!", 3, 7)

Leaving the x and/or y as nil will automatically center it on the terminal:

mf.writeOn(term, "Wow!", nil, 2) -- horizontally centered

Font options

These three functions all have an additional optional parameter for font options, with which you can specify e.g. which font to use, which size to use, and which alignment options to use:

mf.writeOn(term, "MORE FONTS can do text wrapping!", nil, nil, {
    font = "fonts/PublicPixel",
    dx = 0,
    dy = 0,
    scale = 1,
    wrapWidth = 80,
    condense = true,
    sepWidth = 1,
    spaceWidth = 5,
    lineSepHeight = 5,
    textAlign = "left",
    anchorHor = "center",
    anchorVer = "center",
})

All values in the font options are optional, so you do not have to specify all of them.

All numerical values in the font options except for scale are in teletext pixels (which are different from the terminal character pixels which are used for the (x, y) position for the writeTo function, every terminal character pixel consists of 2x3 teletext pixels).

Default font options

After setting your own default values for any font options, these values will automatically be applied to any text (unless they are overwritten):

mf.setDefaultFontOptions({
    condense = true,
    font = "fonts/PublicPixel",
})

mf.print("hi")                            -- uses previously set default font
mf.print("hi", {font = "fonts/3x3-Mono"}) -- uses 3x3 Mono instead of default font (but is still condensed)

Any font option that you do not include in your own default font options will use the library's default value by default.

More information about the various options is available on GitHub

Font browser

Use the font browser to preview all available fonts from GitHub. Navigate left or right to switch between fonts.