Fonts

Font Assets are binary resources that contain information of font characters (and/or prerendered characters texture). Flax performs the required importing, loading and rasterization of the font glyphs. Fonts are used by the 3D Text Render actor, as well as the UI system.

Flax uses the FreeType library for font character rasterization and offline rendering.

Importing fonts

You can import font files to use as font assets in your project. Flax supports importing the following file types as fonts:

• .ttf
• .otf

The easiest way to import one or more fonts is to drag them from the file explorer to the Content Window. Alternatively, you can use the Import button in the Content Window toolbar and then select the files to import.

Font Window

Double-click on an imported font asset in the Content Window to open the dedicated font asset tool window. You can use it to type text and preview the font.

Font Properties

The font window can be used to preview and edit the font rasterization options:

Property	Description
Hinting	The font hinting used when rendering characters. Possible options include: Option Description Default Use the default hinting specified in the font. Auto Force the use of an automatic hinting algorithm (over the fonts native hinter). Auto Light Force the use of an automatic light hinting algorithm, optimized for non-monochrome displays. Monochrome Force the use of an automatic hinting algorithm optimized for monochrome displays. None Do not use hinting. This generally generates 'blurrier' bitmap glyphs when the glyphs are rendered in any of the anti-aliased modes.
Anti Aliasing	Enables using anti-aliasing for font characters. Otherwise the font will use monochrome data.
Bold	Enables an artificial embolden effect.
Italic	Enables a slant effect, emulating italic style.

Fallback fonts

When font used to draw text doesn't contains certain characters (eg. non-Latin set, emoji or icon) then fallback fonts can be used. Flax supports using one or more fallbacks when the primary font lacks a glyph to be displayed.

To setup this feature assign Fallback Fonts property in Graphics Settings:

In Editor, in-built font is used as a fallback by default - can be configured in Editor Options. Leave that empty to use the ones from Graphics Settings.