Colored font

Unity Engine
1

Maybe it’s not the right forum to ask this question but for my game I want to make a font with several colors like this: 1512034–85808–$aakqir6r.bmp (594 KB)
Each character consists of more than one color.
Does anybody know how to make such a font?
All the (free) font editors I know only can make black characters.

2

A font does not contain any specific color information, it’s just a collection of shapes that can be applied a variation of properties, one of those being colour.

If you use Unity 4 then you can use the richtext property to stylize your text by using HTML style formatting tags.

Here is a small example of how to use this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class GUITest : MonoBehaviour 
{
	// Our GUIStyle to use
	private GUIStyle textStyle;
	
	void Start () 
	{
		// Setup the new GUIStyle and enable richText
		textStyle = new GUIStyle();
		textStyle.richText = true;

		// Extra Shizzle
		textStyle.fontSize = 130;
		textStyle.alignment = TextAnchor.MiddleCenter;
	}

	void OnGUI () 
	{
		// Sample label with different colors
		GUI.Label(new Rect(0,0,Screen.width,Screen.height),
			"<color=red>G</color>" +
			"<color=green>M</color>" +
			"<color=blue>M</color>" +
			" " +
			"<color=yellow>R</color>" +
			"<color=teal>O</color>" +
			"<color=cyan>C</color>" +
			"<color=brown>K</color>" +
			"<color=#DF01D7>S</color>", textStyle);
	}
}

And the output would look like:

1181×862 20 KB

3

Thanks!
The richtext property would be a nice solution.

I understand now that a font does not contain any specific color information.
I think the characters in the image that I attached above are vector images and not real fonts. But can you never make a font like that with more colors for each character (character “a” is light blue with a dark blue border and a gradient)?

4

Try looking into a bitmap font instead, like this example:
http://lukasz.dk/2011/05/01/pixel-perfect-bitmap-font-in-unity/

That is an old example, but the core concept should still apply today.

5

I will take a look at that.
Thanks for help!

6

There’s also the “Custom Font”, which is poorly documented and a bit of a black art. I tried to put some words together here:

(Nice font btw)