Font

Represent a text font with a name, style, and size.

Use a Font to change how text looks on a Label, TextField, TextArea, Button, CheckBox, or DropDownList, or in text drawn with a Display's drawLabel().

A font's size is in pixels, so a given size looks the same on every kind of object and on every computer. Text you do not give a font to uses Arial at size 13.

Creating a Font

You can create a Font using the following functions:

Font(name)

Font(name, style, size)

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
name	str	required	The font name, for example "Serif", "Dialog", or "TimesRoman".
style	tuple	PLAIN	The text style, one of Font.PLAIN, Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC, or Font.BOLDITALIC.
size	int	-1	The size, in pixels. If left as the default, size 13 is used.

For example,

font = Font("Arial", Font.ITALIC, 16)

Once created, you can use it with the setFont() function from a Label, TextField, TextArea, Button, CheckBox, or DropDownList object.

Functions

Once a Font has been created, the following functions are available:

Function	Description
getName()	Return the font's name.
setName(name)	Set the font's name.
getStyle()	Return the font's style.
setStyle(style)	Set the font's style.
getSize()	Return the font's size.
setSize(size)	Set the font's size.