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]]> As first task for the upcoming Weather Station Color project I wanted to adapt my online font generator. Easily creating fonts in various sizes will make work on the Weather Station code a lot easier. Since my own display library doesn’t support the color TFT screen I switched to Adafruit’s library. They provide a converter but it needs to be compiled and I wanted to have this feature available on my web based font converter. So I analyzed the Adafruit font files and the converter and ported it to Java.

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The Font Creator Preview

To create fonts which you can use in the Adafruit library follow these steps:

  1. Go to: http://oleddisplay.squix.ch/
  2. Choose font family, style and size
  3. Now Choose “Adafruit GFX Font” from Library Version dropdown
  4. Click “Create”
  5. Copy the created font into a new file in your Arduino IDE, e.g. arial14.h and add a 
    #include "arial14.h"

    in your ino-file

  6. Use the font by calling 
    tft.setFont(&ArialMT_14);

If you are missing fonts in the font creator please contact me. New fonts should have a license which allows me to add them to the font creator…

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