Create and use custom fonts for Adafruit_GFX libraries

if you use tft displays for your Arduino or Teensy projects, chances are you need custom fonts. This is the first ever tutorial on how to use and create your own custom fonts.

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[robwray]

This video was very helpful. It was refreshing to find content that is concise and clearly directed. Instructional videos of this caliber set a standard for educational content. Additionally, the absence of text-to-speech narration and background music enhanced the clarity and quality of the presentation. Thank you for your excellent work!

[alanbacknd]

Thank
I'm been so confused on how to get it to work.
Thank you for taking the time and show us.
Great Videos .... Keep up the great work

[gcn]

Kris i enjoy every video you make, keep up the great work

[grzybbak]

Thank you so much for this video! It helped a lot (:

[vicentevictorica]

Very useful and clear explanation. Thanks!

[DonBonin]

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[RoSiYou]

Great and good to know! Thanks for sharing.

[youpattube]

at about 0:11 seconds you show a list of fonts on your computer in folder ...Adafruit_GFX/Fonts. There are some fonts listed there that might solve a problem I have, but for the life of me I cannot find them anywhere, either in my arduino installation, on my computer or on the internet. Will you tell me how to navigate to them ?

[lyrana]

What is that custom font that looks like the numbers on a digital clock?

[firstsurname]

unfortunately it seems that the anti-aliasing on the fonts is converted to solid pixels and makes characters look very distorted on the screen :(

[mehdies]

Good job - I tried to convert an Arabic font with this method, but the LCD failed to show words properly and it just showed squared boxes instead. The interesting point is that this method works on numbers and the LCD actually showed Arabic number to me. Do you how can I solve my problem? I use a 2.4" TFT LCD and MCUFRIEND_kbv.h library.

[Dancopymus]

Hi Kris, first of all thanks for the tutorial. I have a question:
Does the Font have to be created in Bitmaps?
Can't it be any other way, for example, to put the created font to open in a new tab in the Arduino IDE along with the .ino file? Sorry I don't understand about fonts! Thanks

[gusantor]

Hello & thanks
I'm using Adafruit neomatrix 8x8 (with ws2812b leds)
Is there a way to change (decreace) the space (unused leds) between numbers for numbers above 9?.
Now number 10, has a couple of pixels or leds just blank, I would like to remove that "space" to optimize the pixel usage
Is there any way to do that ?
Thanks!

[chirathjayawardena]

when i was using a custom font .its not refresh the print overlap.

[thorstenpapendorff]

now i can open the fontconverter online, but when i download it, it won´t work on my pc....and i don´t know how to include a ttf into the list to convert...

[Geopiper]

Great video!!! Thanks!!! Downloaded your files and had my custom font in minutes!!! I couldn't make sense of the programs that are in the GFX font folder!

[apostolosn]

Hi. Did anyone manage to show characters other than English, like Greek, Russian, Turkish ..e.t.c ?

[bierhoch]

die Website ist leider nicht mehr online

[DeeGeeDeFi]

More than 3 years later, and my sketches aren't successfully compling when I try to introduce a font. I get this: 'class Adafruit_SSD1306' has no member named 'setFont'

[vitorheleno]

Thanks for the great tutorial. Do you have any idea how to convert fonts with umlauts chars (128 to 168)?. For some reason, the tools you refer do not covert such characters