Pygame: Drawing text

It is a three-step process.

Step 1: Define a font object, ‘pygame.font.SysFont()’ method is used to get the font object.

Syntax

SysFont(name, size, bold=False, italic=False)

Example

font = pygame.font.SysFont('Calibri', 25, True, True)

Step 2: Render the text using render method.

Syntax

render(text, antialias, color, background=None)

Example

text = font.render("My text",True,BLACK)

Step 3: Use blit method to draw the text on surface.

Syntax

blit(source, dest, area=None, special_flags = 0)

Example

screen.blit(text, [250, 250])

#import pygame
import pygame
import math

#initialize game engine
pygame.init()

#Open a window
size = (500, 500)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)

#Set title to the window
pygame.display.set_caption("Hello World")

dead=False

#Initialize values for color (RGB format)
WHITE=(255,255,255)
RED=(255,0,0)
GREEN=(0, 255, 0)
BLUE=(0,0,255)
BLACK=(0,0,0)

clock = pygame.time.Clock()
PI=math.pi

while(dead==False):
 for event in pygame.event.get(): 
  if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
   dead = True
  
  screen.fill(WHITE)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, RED, [[10,10], [100, 10], [55, 80]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, RED, [[110,10], [200, 10], [155, 80]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, RED, [[210,10], [300, 10], [255, 80]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, RED, [[310,10], [400, 10], [355, 80]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, RED, [[410,10], [500, 10], [455, 80]], 0)
  
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, GREEN, [[10, 500], [100, 500], [55, 420]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, GREEN, [[110, 500], [200, 500], [155, 420]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, GREEN, [[210, 500], [300, 500], [255, 420]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, GREEN, [[310, 500], [400, 500], [355, 420]], 0)
  pygame.draw.polygon(screen, GREEN, [[410, 500], [500, 500], [455, 420]], 0)
  
  font = pygame.font.SysFont('Calibri', 35, True, True)
  text = font.render("Welcome To Pygame",True,BLACK)
  screen.blit(text, [100, 240])

  pygame.display.flip()
  clock.tick(60)
   
#Shutdown display module
pygame.display.quit()

Run above program, you will get following output.

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