Would like some advice and help with UTFT fonts

I'm using SevenSegNumFonts in my sketch since they are the only one big enough for my need. Problem is there are only numbers. I would like to add some characters like + - and maybe a few letters. This seem fully possible when I look at the DefaultsFonts.c file. But what is the most practical and easy way to do it? I understand that the two first bytes in the array is the size of the font (3250 or 0x200x32). But what are the next two? Then for the data must I manually draw pictures of the character and figure out very data byte in that way? Maybe someone have already done this?

You have a couple of options:

  • make your own font file using the convertor available here Electronics - Henning Karlsen. I did start to play around with this some years ago but it all got too hard.
  • use one of the alternative font files created by other users - you should be able to find something acceptable here Electronics - Henning Karlsen.

If you think about it, you will probably realise that producing a '+' on a seven segment display font is not really possible :slight_smile:

Cheers

Magicj:
You have a couple of options:

  • make your own font file using the convertor available here Electronics - Henning Karlsen. I did start to play around with this some years ago but it all got too hard.
  • use one of the alternative font files created by other users - you should be able to find something acceptable here Electronics - Henning Karlsen.

If you think about it, you will probably realise that producing a '+' on a seven segment display font is not really possible :slight_smile:

Cheers

But in my case with 3.2" TFT display I don't really have seven segment display. And one of the available fonts under your suggested url was SevenSegmentFull which has other characters and letters. Happy I didn't have to manually figure out bytes in an array.
EDIT but I have discovered that not all letters are possible

jfri:
EDIT but I have discovered that not all letters are possible

Nor is a '+' sign :slight_smile: