Any decent fonts for RA8875 display ?

[skpang]

I'm using Sumotoy's RA8875 driver on a Teensy 4.0

The display and driver works but I found the font is a bit strange.

The aerial_22 and aerial_48 font doesn't look like Arial font and aerial_48 is upper case only.

So is there a decent set of Arial fonts for the RA8875 ?

   display.setFont(&Liberation_Mono_72);
   display.setCursor(0, 0);
   display.println("Liberation_Mono_72");

   display.setFont(&Liberation_Mono_48);
   display.setCursor(0, 100);
   display.println("Liberation_Mono_48");

   display.setFont(&Liberation_Mono_36);
   display.setCursor(0, 150);
   display.println("Liberation_Mono_36");

   display.setFont(&Liberation_Mono_28);
   display.setCursor(0, 200);
   display.println("Liberation_Mono_28");
   
   display.setFont(&LiberationMono_24);
   display.setCursor(0, 230);
   display.println("LiberationMono_24");

   display.setFont(&aerial_22);
   display.setCursor(0, 300);
   display.println("aerial_22");

   display.setFont(&aerial_48);
   display.setCursor(0, 340);
   display.println("Testing 123 aerial_48");

 

[mjs513]

Well never tried this but Sumotoy has a method to convert fonts: https://github.com/sumotoy/RA8875/wiki/How-to-convert-a-font

The other thing is that the adafruit version seems to support their fonts: https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?t=96819 and https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?t=124652 Guess will have to look at that.

 

[skpang]

Just tried Sumotoy's font conversion tutorial. It works !!!

Initially the converter software only listed the Arial font. I didn't really want to use that font because I believe it is copy righted.

I downloaded the liberation font and installed in my Windows machine.
https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/releases/tag/2.00.5

Ran the converter software again and selected the liberation font. Generate the .c file and copy that into my Teensy project.

 

[mjs513]

Good to know that it works, never tried it.

Out of curiosity l did a quick test and looks like with some effort you could get the RA8875 to use Adafruit fonts, etc. Going to put it on to do list.