Low poly font (plus rendering system.) Uses triangles not textures, for always sharp edges.
Dutch-Blunt is both the name of the minimalistic font that I created, and its rendering API. The font was created with the following criteria:
- Rendered as pure triangles as opposed to curves, textures, or lines.
- Low polygon (triangle) count for each glyph.
- ASCII only (characters 33 to 127 inclusive.)
The font was created in Wings3D and exported to Wavefront OBJ. Dutch-Blunt comes with a python script that will read the wavefront OBJ file and create C-source code. The glyph data containst glyph widths, the triangle vertices, the vertex count, and an offset into a global vertex data set.
A C interface is provided to convert an ASCII string into triangle vertices that can be fed into e.g. OpenGL.
/*!
* Convert an ascii string to a stream of vertex data.
* Returns the number of triangles(x,y,x,y,x,y) written to the buffer.
*/
int dblunt_string_to_vertices
(
const char* str, //!< characters to render.
float* destbuf, //!< output buffer to hold vertices.
int destbufsz, //!< size of output buffer in bytes.
float posx, float posy, //!< target position for text render.
float sclx, float scly, //!< scale of the text render.
float fadestart, //!< if >=0, start fading out at this character number and write opactities.
int* textw, //!< out: width of longest line.
int* texth //!< out: height of text.
);
The Dutch-Blunt font, and its supporting software is (c)2015 by Abraham Stolk.
The font 'Dutch-Blunt' is licensed under the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE.
The API and conversion script is licensed under the Apache License 2.0