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Font

uiZ has a few ways it handles fonts that may be useful for you to know.
uiZ uses the freeware M+ 2p font family included: https://www.fontspace.com/m-fonts/m-2p

General use of fonts in objects

Many objects have a "font" parameter available. By default on most objects, this value is -1.
A value of -1 means that there will be no font change and whatever font was last loaded is used for drawing. You can pass any game maker font to these values. I recommend picking a uiz_fnt_dp_XX font listed below.

DP font

uiZ has the following fonts pre-compiled:

• uiz_fnt_2: M+ 2p regular @size 2px
• uiz_fnt_5: M+ 2p regular @size 5px
• uiz_fnt_8: M+ 2p regular @size 8px
• uiz_fnt_10: M+ 2p regular @size 10px
• uiz_fnt_20: M+ 2p regular @size 20px
• uiz_fnt_30: M+ 2p regular @size 30px
• uiz_fnt_50: M+ 2p regular @size 50px
• uiz_fnt_70: M+ 2p regular @size 70px

Use of the above fonts is discouraged, because pixel based fonts don't scale well between different display resolutions.

At the start of your game/program, uiZ will load the following fonts:

• uiz_fnt_dp_15: M+ 2p regular @size 0.15 density pixels
• {disabled by default} uiz_fnt_dp_30: M+ 2p regular @size 0.30 density pixels
• {disabled by default} uiz_fnt_dp_50: M+ 2p regular @size 0.50 density pixels

A DP based font appears to be the same size on a desktop vs a phone, while also taking resolution into account. A dp of 1 is equal to a height of 1 inch in real life. A dp of 0.15 density pixels is equal to 0.15 inch (=3,81 mm) in real life.
To enabled disabled fonts, please edit UIZ_FONT. These are disabled to prevent performance hits on mobile devices of which the developer (you) is not aware.

Character sets

When your game is loading uiz tries to match the uiz_fnt_dp_XX to any of the uiz_fnt_XX. The pixel fonts are pre-generated, which is faster and doesn't load an extra texture page.
uiZ handles a character set from unicode 32 to unicode 255. This captures the most important Latin alphabets. Should your game require slavic or eastern characters, you will have to change this range.
To do this change the following files:

• uiz_fnt_XX (In the Fonts section of the GM resource tree) (static generated fonts)
• UIZ_FONT_IMPORT (A subtab of UIZ_FONT) (loaded if the static fonts don't suffice)

Your own fonts

In a game, a special or custom font is very common. To use your font with uiZ you need to edit the following files:

• uiz_fnt_XX (In the Fonts section of the GM resource tree) (static generated fonts)
• UIZ_FONT_IMPORT (A subtab of UIZ_FONT) (loaded if the static fonts don't suffice)