Use other fonts on the 2.8" TFT LCD?

[scoopthepoop]

I have browsed and searched everything I can think of and cannot find a beginners guide to changing the font. Currently I am using the tft.print("STUFF") to print things to the TFT. Can I use any of the glcd fonts that come with the arduino library to print to the TFT screen?

Thanks

[adafruit]

there are no othter fonts available at this time, and no tutorials. we hope to re-write the GFX library to handle different fonts but there is no ETA when we'll get to that

[samv6271]

] there is no ETA when we'll get to that

Has changed since your post in June? I would like to change the font. If it helps, all I'm looking for is numbers 0-9 and a decimal point.

[corbin]

Hi Sam,
I also wanted more fonts. I looked at using the UTFT library...and it worked for my 2.2" adafruit display, however, it only worked using serial mode and was slow. I ported it over to using the hardware SPI pins. It is at:

https://github.com/corbinstreehouse/UTFT_Adafruit_22TFT

You could probably make similar changes for the 2.8 TFT.

It has 3 fonts available standard.

corbin

[uno23]

Hi Corbin, great work! But in your opinion for the display 2.2" TFT it'is possible to use also the micro SD card?

Best Regards

Marco

[andig]

Please have a look at https://github.com/guyc/py-gaugette/issues/1 and https://github.com/andig/convert_font. We're working on a python port of the ssd1306 and adafruit gfx libraries for use with the raspberry pi and have already developed additional bitmapped fonts that can be used with the python libraries.
Cheers, Andreas

[zxfr]

Give a try to our UTFT library emulator.

http://pd4ml.com/pixelmeister/

Apart from its main function, it also allows you to import images to rgb565 bitmaps and to convert TTF fonts into a very compact raster format. To support the converted fonts we provide uText library, built on the top of UTFT. (It can be easily ported to any platform, which has means to draw horizontal and vertical lines). The font/text functionality is not limited by a particular character codepage - you can mix any languages in a displayed text.