Custom Font?

**LazyCoder** · 17th September 2007, 02:15 AM

Is there any way to make text that will look like this? It's a font with a bunch of PS layer styles applied to it, so I was thinking maybe I could use the text blitter object to use images of each letter, but in the image below, you can see that the letters slightly overlap. I was wondering if there was a way of doing that.

**Mathias** · 17th September 2007, 05:26 AM

I think it is possible. How about writing your own engine that prints the font?

**Sphax** · 17th September 2007, 09:32 AM

I remember a tutorial for TextBlitter to have variable width and space for each letters, I'll try to find it...

**Dynasoft** · 17th September 2007, 10:14 AM

It looks like it's got three layers you'd have to draw independently (3 text blitters maybe?). A black layer that every letter overlaps, a grey layer that only overlaps the characters next to it sometimes, and the coloured layer that's always on top.

You might get away with the coloured and grey layers being the same layer, but you risk the grey outline overlapping the coloured text in some (uncommon) letter combinations.

EDIT: Of course, it's the "overlapping" bit that's the problem. Does text blitter allow letters to have a larger image than their "official" size?