Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art

This will output a list of all the fonts currently installed on your computer. In the line of the
sketch that reads font2 = createFont("Helvetica", 32);, you can replace Helvetica
with any font you have installed.
In addition to createFont(), I also used the loadFont() command:
font = loadFont("Garamond-32.vlw");
Before I could use loadFont(), I needed to first use the CreateFont command from the
Tools menu. I selected Garamond and a size of 32, and left the smooth box checked and
the All Characters box unchecked. If you don’t have the font Garamond, pick another font,
but be sure to change the name in the following sketch. The Tools ➤ CreateFont command
automatically creates and installs the VLW font in your current sketch’s data directory.
/*
Orbiting Text
Ira Greenberg, November 14, 2005
*/
PFont font;
String s = "Spinning Word";
PFont font2;
String s2 = "flipping Word";
float ang = 0, ang2 =0;
void setup(){
size(400, 400, P3D);
//load text from data directory
font = loadFont("Garamond-32.vlw");
//dynamically create text and specify size as the second argument
font2 = createFont("Helvetica", 32);
}
//rotates text in 3D space
void draw(){
background(255);
translate(width/2, height/2, 50);
pushMatrix();
rotateY(radians(ang));
textFont(font, 32);
fill(45, 78, 28);
text(s, -textWidth(s)/2, 0, 100);
popMatrix();
pushMatrix();
rotateX(radians(ang2));
textFont(font2, 24);
fill(250, 125, 28);
text(s2, -textWidth(s2)/2, 0, 0);
popMatrix();
ang+=3;
ang2-=10;
}
PROCESSING LANGUAGE API
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