I want my font to include these various special Playdate glyphs—but none of the example fonts in the SDK have them, other than (A) and (B). Where do I find them in Caps?
For example, I see an Arrows category, but none some to be the particular arrows mentioned in the docs. And I don't see Emoji—like the lock and and fishing reel—in Caps.
TIA!
Take a look at:
PlaydateSDK/Resources/Fonts/Asheville/Asheville Sans 14 Light/Asheville-Sans-14-Light.fnt
The characters you're after are in the "Custom" section in Caps.
(Although there is still some odd buggy stuff going on here as previously reported in another thread.)
Cool, I see two of the special Playdate glyphs there—but not the ones for Lock, the crank, and the five D-pad ones. And the (B) one there seems to be assigned differently from the docs, which mention Ⓐ Ⓑ, found in Enclosed Alphnumerics. (Leaving aside the offset bug you mention.)
How do you add to the Custom set? Can I just edit the .fnt file manually, adding what I want without concern for the order? Or will that mess up re-import into Caps?
(Maybe there could be a button to add all the custom Playdate glyphs at once; then the user can just delete unwanted ones.)
You can paste the text into the preview box in Caps and then click a character to jump to the glyph.
That's a great feature! I'll be using that trick for lots of things.
(The D-Pad arrow emojis don't seem to work right—you get control characters—but for now I don't think they're possible. I will use other arrow characters as placeholders for now.)
Sorry @matt to dig this up, but it seems these characters are no longer there (at least not all of them). Would you know where they are now?
I see a copy paste works fine though...
What font are you using @Schyzophrenic ?
And can you post a code sample and what you're seeing?
FWIW these seem to be the characters to use (not arrow emoji) if you want to follow Panic's lead:
Ⓐ
Ⓑ
🟨
⊙
🔒
🎣
✛
⬆
➡
⬇
⬅
I was actually loading the file in CAPS, not using code. When using the system font I can display Ⓐ just fine for instance, so it is probably a non-issue. I am just not sure why I am not seeing these characters in CAPS (or more likely I am not looking at the right place! )
For instance, I go to CAPS and open "Asheville-Sans-14-Light.fnt" from the resources folder, and see this (it seems there are some mixed up chars?)
I can't seem to find the d-pad and arrows though.
For what it's worth, as of 2025-02-20, this is still showing incorrect glyphs and not showing the playdate controls glyphs, either in "custom" or elsewhere. I'm looking at the font files directly out of the 2.6.2 SDK on the currently available /caps/ app. I see it at least with "Sasser-Slab" and "Roobert 10 bold" fonts, which do have the extended glyph data.