Python display text with font color

Question

Is there a way I can display text on a pygame window using python   I need to display a bunch of live information that updates and would rather not make an image for each character I need   Can I blit text to the screen

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Yes  It is possible to draw text in pygame     initialize font  must be called after  pygame init    to avoid  Font not Initialized  error myfont   pygame font SysFont  monospace   15     render text label   myfont render  Some text    1   255 255 0   screen blit label   100  100

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I have some code in my game that displays live score  It is in a function for quick access   def texts score      font pygame font Font None 30     scoretext font render  Score   str score   1  255 255 255      screen blit scoretext   500  457     and I call it using this in my while loop   texts score

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There are 2 possibilities  In either case PyGame has to be initialized by pygame init  import pygame pygame init    Use either the pygame font module and create a pygame font SysFont or pygame font Font object  render   a pygame Surface with the text and blit the Surface to the screen  my font   pygame font SysFont None  50  text surface   myfont render  quot Hello world  quot   True   255  0  0   screen blit text surface   10  10    Or use the pygame freetype module   Create a pygame freetype SysFont   or pygame freetype Font object  render   a pygame Surface with the text or directly render to   the text to the screen  my ft font   pygame freetype SysFont  Times New Roman   50  my ft font render to screen   10  10    quot Hello world  quot    255  0  0    See also Text and font  Minimal pygame font example   repl it  Rabbid76 PyGame-Text  import pygame  pygame init   window   pygame display set mode  500  150   clock   pygame time Clock    font   pygame font SysFont None  100  text   font render  Hello World   True   255  0  0    background   pygame Surface window get size    ts  w  h  c1  c2   50   window get size     128  128  128    64  64  64  tiles      x ts  y ts  ts  ts   c1 if  x y    2    0 else c2  for x in range  w ts-1   ts  for y in range  h ts-1   ts   for rect  color in tiles      pygame draw rect background  color  rect   run   True while run      clock tick 60      for event in pygame event get            if event type    pygame QUIT              run   False      window blit background   0  0       window blit text  text get rect center   window get rect   center       pygame display flip    pygame quit   exit     Minimal pygame freetype example   repl it  Rabbid76 PyGame-FreeTypeText  import pygame import pygame freetype  pygame init   window   pygame display set mode  500  150   clock   pygame time Clock    ft font   pygame freetype SysFont  Times New Roman   80   background   pygame Surface window get size    ts  w  h  c1  c2   50   window get size     128  128  128    64  64  64  tiles      x ts  y ts  ts  ts   c1 if  x y    2    0 else c2  for x in range  w ts-1   ts  for y in range  h ts-1   ts   for rect  color in tiles      pygame draw rect background  color  rect   run   True while run      clock tick 60      for event in pygame event get            if event type    pygame QUIT              run   False      window blit background   0  0       text rect   ft font get rect  Hello World       text rect center   window get rect   center     ft font render to window  text rect topleft   Hello World    255  0  0       pygame display flip    pygame quit   exit

User · Answer

You can use your own custom fonts by setting the font path using pygame font Font  pygame font Font filename  size   return Font   example   pygame font init   font path      fonts newfont ttf  font size   32 fontObj   pygame font Font font path  font size    Then render the font using fontObj render and blit to a surface as in veiset s answer above

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I wrote a wrapper  that will cache text surfaces  only re-render when dirty  googlecode ninmonkey nin text demo

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