Modern custom font guide?

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It’s super simple with the Projucer. Just:

  • Add the TTF (or OTF etc) files to the Projucer project. By default it will add them in the BinaryData.
  • Use Typeface::createSystemTypefaceFor() to create the typeface and construct a font.

I’ve never had a problem doing this with a Meyer’s singleton, especially now they’re threadsafe to initialise in C++11. Let’s say you had a font WackyFont.otf and it has been added to the Projucer project. You can have a method to create this font:

static const Font& getWackyFont()
{
    static Font wacky (Font (Typeface::createSystemTypefaceFor (BinaryData::WackyFont_otf,
                                                                BinaryData::WackyFont_otfSize)));
    return wacky;
}

I usually add a method like this to my custom look-and-feel class. They you can get different sizes by doing things like getWackyFont().withHeight (255.0f) etc…

I’m sure there are other patterns that you can use as Typeface::createSystemTypefaceFor() returns a shared Typeface::Ptr.

BTW Watch out for font licenses as many include an exclusion for embedding like this and require a separate (often more costly) license…Slightly different context but there was the My Little Pony case recently…

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