New user and fonts

[gadjet]

Hi,
I've just picked up a Basic M5Stack and planned to use it as an MQTT display to receive temp data.
There doesn't seem to be an abundance of information on this project as I would normally expect to find so I need to ask a question i this forum.

I've placed some text on the screen already and can alter the size but I don't like the font.

I plan to use Arduino IDE to write my code and need to know about the fonts, are there different font types built in? If not do I need to create them externally?

[Rop]

Yes there are fonts built-in. You can use the m5.lcd.setFreeFont command to set the font, see

https://github.com/m5stack/M5Stack/tree/master/examples/Advanced/Display/Free_Font_Demo

Or you can have a look at my library M5ez:

http://forum.m5stack.com/topic/262/m5ez-a-complete-interface-builder-system-for-the-m5stack-as-an-arduino-library-extremely-easy-to-use

It makes creating something that looks cool very easy and can also access all fonts.

[gadjet]

@rop thanks for the pointers, I'll have a look at both.