Font Stash enables easy string rendering in OpenGL applications. It supports truetype fonts and UTF-8 encoded localized strings. All glyphs are cached in OpenGL texture atlases. Font rasterization is done using Sean Barrett's stb_truetype.h.
Font Stash was originally created and published by Mikko Mononen.
- Bitmap font support
- Truetype font loading from memory
- Added ability to load an arbitrary number of fonts (not just four)
- Use multiple OpenGL textures for glyph caching (not just one)
- Freetype2 support (for glyph outlines)
#include "fontstash.h"
...
/* create a font stash with a maximum texture size of 512 x 512 */
struct sth_stash* stash = sth_create(512, 512);
/* load truetype font */
int droid = sth_add_font(stash, "DroidSerif-Regular.ttf");
/* position of the text */
float x = 10, y = 10;
...
/* draw text during your OpenGL render loop */
sth_begin_draw(stash);
/* position: (x, y); font size: 24 */
sth_draw_text(stash, droid, 24.0f, x, y, "Hello world!", &x);
/* now, the float x contains the x position of the next char */
sth_end_draw(stash);
... Bitmap fonts can be generated using the AngelCode Bitmap Font Generator. It's a Windows program that runs under Linux using Wine. This program generates one or more image files and a text file (*.fnt) containing the bounding box coordinates of all individual glyphs. These coordinates are used to reference the glyphs using Font Stash.
The files fontstash.c, fontstash.h and main.c are licensed unter the zlib license:
Copyright (c) 2011 Andreas Krinke andreas.krinke@gmx.de
Copyright (c) 2009 Mikko Mononen memon@inside.org
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
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2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
For UTF-8 decoding, Font Stash uses Björn Höhrmann's Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder (included in fontstash.c). His code is licensed under the MIT license:
Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>
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Finally, Font Stash uses Sean Barrett's public domain truetype font rasterizer stb_truetype.h.