Drawing white text on black is not working

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I am having trouble drawing a simple white text on a black background.

The documentation states: " To draw white-on-black text (assuming the font you are using is defined in the standard black-on-transparent manner), first call playdate.graphics.setImageDrawMode(playdate.graphics.kDrawModeFillWhite), followed by the appropriate drawText() call."

This is what I have for my code:

import "CoreLibs/object"
import "CoreLibs/graphics"
import "CoreLibs/sprites"

local function initialize()
	playdate.graphics.setImageDrawMode(playdate.graphics.kDrawModeFillWhite)
	playdate.graphics.drawText("Hello World", 50, 50)
end

initialize()

Upon running, this only shows a blank white screen. If I remove the setImageDrawMode, I get a black on white "Hello World". I have tried everything else on this forum, and have had no success. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Using SDK, Lua, and Windows.

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The screen is white by default so you'll need to setbackgroundcolor() or clear() to black.

So you're doing it right, otherwise.

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Was able to use playdate.graphics.clear(0) before both the 'setImageDrawMode' and the playdate.graphics.drawText' which resulted in a white on black font. Thank you. This is solved

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