Text Rendering

TachyPy offers multiple text paths depending on precision and dependency needs.

Text class

Text is the convenience layer for instruction screens and simple overlays. It tries Pillow first by default, with a legacy pygame.font fallback only when pygame is installed.

OpenGL text renderers

• GLText: bitmap glyph renderer in pure OpenGL.

• GLTextSDF: signed-distance-field renderer for smoother scaling.

• GLSystemText: system-font rendering using FreeType + HarfBuzz. You can pass a family name, comma-separated fallback list, or a direct font-file path.

The OpenGL renderers are backend-independent and do not require pygame.font.

Recommended usage

• Use Text for quick experiments and prototypes.

• Use GLSystemText for highest quality multilingual/system-font rendering.

• Use GLTextSDF when scalable text quality matters and shaping is simple.