patch Font to stop dark edges when blending

ReadMe.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ or via mesa or ANGLE on 'big' machines. This makes it generally *faster*
 and opens up the world of *shaders* that allow effects such as normal and 
 reflection maps, blurring and many others. It has various demos of built-in
 shapes, landscapes, model loading, walk-about camera and much more! See the demos
-included with this code and experiment with them ..
+on github.com/pi3d/pi3d_demos and experiment with them ..
 
 If you are reading this document as the ReadMe in the repository then you
 can find the full version of the documentation here

pi3d/constants/__init__.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 pi3d.constants contains constant values, mainly integers, from OpenGL ES 2.0.
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.13'
+__version__ = '2.14'
 
 STARTUP_MESSAGE = """
 

pi3d/util/Font.py

@@ -150,10 +150,15 @@ def __init__(self, font, color=(255,255,255,255), codepoints=None,
         xindex = 0
         yindex += 1
 
-    RGBs = 'RGBA' # if self.alpha else 'RGB' # always alpha
-    self.im = self.im.convert(RGBs)
+    #RGBs = 'RGBA' # if self.alpha else 'RGB' # always alpha
+    #self.im = self.im.convert(RGBs)
     self.image = np.array(self.im)
     self._tex = ctypes.c_int()
+    if background_color is None:
+      if isinstance(color, str):
+        from PIL import ImageColor
+        color = ImageColor.getrgb(color)
+      self.image[:,:,:3] = color[:3]
 
   def _load_disk(self):
     """