OK, so I registered a bug on this, and it's possible that it is a bug with the rendering library. Can anybody who knows anything about the pygame.font module, look at the bug report and see if you can add any information to this?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/1001033 Thanks, Sam Bull On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 11:23 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > Nicholas Seward wrote: > > The letters may be different lengths. However, the letters should be > > spaced equally. For example,"i" will be shorter than "w" but "hit" > > and "hot" should be the same length. > > No, that's not the way it should work. I just tried an experiment: > > >>> f = Font("VeraMono.ttf", 12) > >>> f.size("e") > (7, 15) > >>> f.size("i") > (7, 15) > > I suspect that the system is not actually giving you a > monospaced font. If it doesn't recognise the font name > you give it, you'll probably get some default font. Have > you tried rendering any text with the font to see what > it looks like? > > I've given up on using SysFont because the results are > too unpredictable cross-platform. I always bundle my > own fonts with my games and use Font to load them > explicitly. > > I like to use the Bitstream Vera fonts. They're nice, > small and very liberally licensed. > > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/ >
