How to use custom fonts in pygame?

Question

Specs: MacOS Monterey, Python 3.10.4, Pygame 2.1.2

Context: I'm trying to create a game using the Pygame module in Python. I want to display text on the screen and have figured that part out. What I'm not sure about is if I'm able to use custom fonts. By custom fonts I mean I've downloaded a font in the form of a .ttf file.

Question: Is there any way to use this .ttf file/font in Pygame? I understand there are some built-in fonts like Comic Sans.

Answer 1

You can use a custom font with the following code:

font = pygame.font.Font(<font file>, <size>)

then render it using

font.render(<text>, True, <colour>)

See also https://nerdparadise.com/programming/pygame/part5 and https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/font.html