Terrarum Sans Bitmap

This font is a bitmap font used in my game project called Terrarum (hence the name). The font supports more than 90 % of european languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

The JAR package is meant to be used with LibGDX (extends BitmapFont class). If you are not using the framework, please refer to the Font metrics section to implement the font metrics correctly on your system.

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Notes and Limitations

• Displaying Bulgarian/Serbian variants of Cyrillic requires special Control Characters. (GameFontBase.charsetOverrideBulgarian -- U+FFFC1; GameFontBase.charsetOverrideSerbian -- U+FFFC2)
• All Han characters are in Mainland Chinese variant. There is no plan to support the other variants unless there is someone willing to do the drawing of the characters
• Only the Devanagari and Tamil has full (as much as I can) ligature support for Indic scripts -- Bengali script does not have any ligature support
• Slick2d versions are now unsupported. I couldn't extend myself to work on both versions, but I'm still welcome to merge your pull requests.

Design Goals

• Sans-serif
• Realise (some of) handwritten forms
  • Combininig with the sans-serif, this stands for no over-simplification
• Condensed capitals for efficient space usage

Download

• Go ahead to the release tab, and download the most recent version. It is not advised to use the .jar found within the repository, they're experimental builds I use during the development, and may contain bugs like leaking memory.

Using on your game

• Firstly, place the .jar to your library path and assets folder to the main directory of the app, then:

Using on LibGDX

On your code (Kotlin):

import net.torvald.terrarumsansbitmap.gdx.TerrarumSansBitmap

class YourGame : Game() {

    lateinit var fontGame: Font

    override fun create() {
        fontGame = TerrarumSansBitmap(path_to_assets, ...)
        ...
    }
    
    override fun render() {
        batch.begin()
        ...
        fontGame.draw(batch, text, ...)
        ...
        batch.end()
    }
}

On your code (Java):

import net.torvald.terrarumsansbitmap.gdx.TerrarumSansBitmap;

class YourGame extends BasicGame {

    Font fontGame;

    @Override void create() {
        fontGame = new TerrarumSansBitmap(path_to_assets, ...);
        ...
    }
    
    @Override void render() {
        batch.begin();
        ...
        fontGame.draw(batch, text, ...);
        ...
        batch.end();
    }
}

How to Use Color Code

Color codes are individual unicode characters. While you can somehow make a raw character and paste in on your code, it's certainly not desirable. Fortunately, we're also providing utility functions for the color codes.

GameFontBase.toColorCode(argb4444: Int) -- returns String
GameFontBase.toColorCode(r: Int, g: Int, b: Int) -- returns String
GameFontBase.toColorCode(r: Int, g: Int, b: Int, a: Int) -- returns String

argb4444 takes whole ARGB (in that order) as input, that is, from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF. r, g, b(, a) takes RGB and A separately, in the range of 0x0..0xF. Any value exceeding the range are unchecked and may wreak havoc, so be careful.

U+100000 is used to disable previously-applied color codes (going back to original colour), even if it looks like ARGB of all zero.

Contribution guidelines

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md

Acknowledgement

Thanks to kind people of /r/Typography for amazing feedbacks.

CJK Ideographs are powered by WenQuanYi Font. The font is distributed under the GNU GPL version 2. Although the shapes of typefaces are not copyrightable (the program codes—e.g. TTF—do), we would like to give a credit to the font and the people behind it.