font-atlas

font-atlas

Populate a <canvas> element with a font texture atlas – can be used to quickly generate bitmap fonts.

Usage

canvas = fontAtlas([options])

Populates and returns a <canvas> element with a font texture atlas. Takes the following options:

• canvas: use an existing <canvas> element. By default, a new one will be created for you.
• font: the font family to use when drawing the text. Can be a css font string or an object with font properties: size, family, style, weight, variant, stretch.
• shape: an array containing the [width, height] for the canvas in pixels. Default: [512, 512].
• step: an array containing the [width, height] for each cell in pixels. Default: [32, 32].
• chars: may be one of either:
  • a string containing all of the characters to use.
  • an array of all the characters to use.
  • an array specifying the [start, end] character codes to use. By default, this is [32, 126].

See also

• font-atlas-sdf

License

MIT. See LICENSE.md for details.