Text

Text in SpriteGrid is drawn in whole pixels and stays editable: it's a layer of its own until you rasterize it.

Adding text#

1. Pick the Text tool (T).
2. Click the canvas and type. Drag out a box instead for text that wraps at its width.
3. Press Escape, or click away, to finish. Enter starts a new line.

Click text again to edit it. Double-click selects a word, triple-click all of it.

Fonts and style#

The tool options and the Text panel set the font, its size, the alignment and the color.

• SpriteGrid comes with pixel fonts like m5x7, Silkscreen, Press Start 2P, Pixellari and Dogica. A pixel font is drawn at its own size; Scale makes it bigger, still crisp.
• Show system fonts lists the fonts on your computer.
• File ▸ Import Font... adds a .ttf, .otf or BMFont .fnt file. SpriteGrid tells you whether it's a pixel font, and at what size.
• The Text panel also sets letter and line spacing, and adds an Outline and a Shadow.

Rasterize Text turns a text layer into pixels you can paint on.