pygame - How to 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?

Answer 1

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)) 

Answer 2

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. :)