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<h1>Fonts</h1>
<p>GameMaker Studio 2 has a number of functions that can be used to get information about the included font assets, as well as a further set of functions that can be used to change, add or remove fonts from your game at run-time. In particular the function
<tt>font_add()</tt> can be used to add non-standard fonts, like Asian glyph fonts, in <tt>*.ttf</tt> format.</p>
<p>It is worth noting is that if you add a font to your game that doesn't have the glyphs required by the text you wish to write, then the unicode character 9647 (▯) is used to substitute those missing glyphs when rendering it in the draw event. So
if your font doesn't have, for example, the º symbol, then writing 90º will actually produce 90▯.</p>
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<p>The following functions can be used to get information about font resources:</p>
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<li><a href="font_get_name.htm">font_get_name</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_fontname.htm">font_get_fontname</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_first.htm">font_get_first</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_last.htm">font_get_last</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_italic.htm">font_get_italic</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_bold.htm">font_get_bold</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_size.htm">font_get_size</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_texture.htm">font_get_texture</a></li>
<li><a href="font_get_uvs.htm">font_get_uvs</a></li>
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<p>The following functions can be used to change and manipulate fonts during a game:</p>
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<li><a href="font_exists.htm">font_exists</a></li>
<li><a href="font_set_cache_size.htm">font_set_cache_size</a></li>
<li><a href="font_add_enable_aa.htm">font_add_enable_aa</a></li>
<li><a href="font_add_get_enable_aa.htm">font_add_get_enable_aa</a></li>
<li><a href="font_add.htm">font_add</a></li>
<li><a href="font_add_sprite.htm">font_add_sprite</a></li>
<li><a href="font_add_sprite_ext.htm">font_add_sprite_ext</a></li>
<li><a href="font_replace.htm">font_replace</a></li>
<li><a href="font_replace_sprite.htm">font_replace_sprite</a></li>
<li><a href="font_replace_sprite_ext.htm">font_replace_sprite_ext</a></li>
<li><a href="font_delete.htm">font_delete</a></li>
<li><a href="font_texture_page_size.htm">font_texture_page_size</a></li>
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