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Adafruit GFX new font?

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Hi,

Is it possible to create/convert a font over to work with the GFX Library?

I'm keen to create another font for the screen.

Cheers

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Re: Adafruit GFX new font?

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you can, we have no documentation or tutorials on how to create a new font

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Re: Adafruit GFX new font?

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This thread, as well as picking through the Adafruit_GFX library source, might give some insights for how an alternate font can be implemented.

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Re: Adafruit GFX new font?

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I've been thinking about making a glyph editor for this font as well.

Have you made any progress, pigman? Anyone else done work in this direction?
If not i'll share what I come up with.

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Re: Adafruit GFX new font?

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Hey, no haven't made any progress with it as yet. I have been looking at utft lately they have a font creator I think but haven't had time to do much with that either :( let use all know your progress

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Re: Adafruit GFX new font?

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Ok, I've got an editor worked up. I did it in Excel to take advantage of some formatting and editing conveniences. It gives a visualization of each glyph from the Adafruit_GFX lib 5x7 font, and lets you edit and get revised output to a custom version of the font file (glcdfont.c).

There are 2 versions in the zip:
GlyphEditor_5x7.xlsx: This is the best one, uses Excel conditional formatting rules for a nicer matrix visualization. May not work in other spreadsheet editing programs.
GlyphEditor_5x7-textonly.xlsx: If the one above just shows ones and zeroes in the matrix viz in your spreadsheeting program, use this one instead. It does not use conditional formatting.

Let me know how it works out for you.
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Re: Adafruit GFX new font?

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Amazing work. It made it very easy for me to create the desired font/size.
Thank you

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