PixiJS

Class: TextStyle

PIXI.TextStyle

A TextStyle Object decorates a Text Object. It can be shared between multiple Text objects. Changing the style will update all text objects using it.

new PIXI.TextStyle(style)

TextStyle.js:47
Name Type Description
style object optional

The style parameters

Name Type Default Description
align string 'left' optional

Alignment for multiline text ('left', 'center' or 'right'), does not affect single line text
breakWords boolean false optional

Indicates if lines can be wrapped within words, it needs wordWrap to be set to true
dropShadow boolean false optional

Set a drop shadow for the text
dropShadowAlpha number 1 optional

Set alpha for the drop shadow
dropShadowAngle number Math.PI/6 optional

Set a angle of the drop shadow
dropShadowBlur number 0 optional

Set a shadow blur radius
dropShadowColor string | number 'black' optional

A fill style to be used on the dropshadow e.g 'red', '#00FF00'
dropShadowDistance number 5 optional

Set a distance of the drop shadow
fill string | Array.<string> | number | Array.<number> | CanvasGradient | CanvasPattern 'black' optional

A canvas fillstyle that will be used on the text e.g 'red', '#00FF00'. Can be an array to create a gradient eg ['#000000','#FFFFFF'] MDN
fillGradientType number PIXI.TEXT_GRADIENT.LINEAR_VERTICAL optional

If fill is an array of colours to create a gradient, this can change the type/direction of the gradient. See PIXI.TEXT_GRADIENT
fillGradientStops Array.<number> optional

If fill is an array of colours to create a gradient, this array can set the stop points (numbers between 0 and 1) for the color, overriding the default behaviour of evenly spacing them.
fontFamily string | Array.<string> 'Arial' optional

The font family
fontSize number | string 26 optional

The font size (as a number it converts to px, but as a string, equivalents are '26px','20pt','160%' or '1.6em')
fontStyle string 'normal' optional

The font style ('normal', 'italic' or 'oblique')
fontVariant string 'normal' optional

The font variant ('normal' or 'small-caps')
fontWeight string 'normal' optional

The font weight ('normal', 'bold', 'bolder', 'lighter' and '100', '200', '300', '400', '500', '600', '700', 800' or '900')
leading number 0 optional

The space between lines
letterSpacing number 0 optional

The amount of spacing between letters, default is 0
lineHeight number optional

The line height, a number that represents the vertical space that a letter uses
lineJoin string 'miter' optional

The lineJoin property sets the type of corner created, it can resolve spiked text issues. Default is 'miter' (creates a sharp corner).
miterLimit number 10 optional

The miter limit to use when using the 'miter' lineJoin mode. This can reduce or increase the spikiness of rendered text.
padding number 0 optional

Occasionally some fonts are cropped. Adding some padding will prevent this from happening by adding padding to all sides of the text.
stroke string | number 'black' optional

A canvas fillstyle that will be used on the text stroke e.g 'blue', '#FCFF00'
strokeThickness number 0 optional

A number that represents the thickness of the stroke. Default is 0 (no stroke)
trim boolean false optional

Trim transparent borders
textBaseline string 'alphabetic' optional

The baseline of the text that is rendered.
wordWrap boolean false optional

Indicates if word wrap should be used
wordWrapWidth number 100 optional

The width at which text will wrap, it needs wordWrap to be set to true

Members

alignstring

Alignment for multiline text ('left', 'center' or 'right'), does not affect single line text

breakWordsboolean

Indicates if lines can be wrapped within words, it needs wordWrap to be set to true

dropShadowboolean

Set a drop shadow for the text

dropShadowAlphanumber

Set alpha for the drop shadow

dropShadowAnglenumber

Set a angle of the drop shadow

dropShadowBlurnumber

Set a shadow blur radius

dropShadowColorstring number

A fill style to be used on the dropshadow e.g 'red', '#00FF00'

dropShadowDistancenumber

Set a distance of the drop shadow

fillstring Array.<string> number Array.<number> CanvasGradient CanvasPattern

A canvas fillstyle that will be used on the text e.g 'red', '#00FF00'. Can be an array to create a gradient eg ['#000000','#FFFFFF'] MDN

fillGradientStopsArray.<number>

If fill is an array of colours to create a gradient, this array can set the stop points (numbers between 0 and 1) for the color, overriding the default behaviour of evenly spacing them.

fillGradientTypenumber

If fill is an array of colours to create a gradient, this can change the type/direction of the gradient. See PIXI.TEXT_GRADIENT

font

Set all properties of a font as a single string

Deprecated
  • since version 4.0.0

    fontFamilystring Array.<string>

    The font family

    fontSizenumber string

    The font size (as a number it converts to px, but as a string, equivalents are '26px','20pt','160%' or '1.6em')

    fontStylestring

    The font style ('normal', 'italic' or 'oblique')

    fontVariantstring

    The font variant ('normal' or 'small-caps')

    fontWeightstring

    The font weight ('normal', 'bold', 'bolder', 'lighter' and '100', '200', '300', '400', '500', '600', '700', 800' or '900')

    leadingnumber

    The space between lines

    letterSpacingnumber

    The amount of spacing between letters, default is 0

    lineHeightnumber

    The line height, a number that represents the vertical space that a letter uses

    lineJoinstring

    The lineJoin property sets the type of corner created, it can resolve spiked text issues. Default is 'miter' (creates a sharp corner).

    miterLimitnumber

    The miter limit to use when using the 'miter' lineJoin mode This can reduce or increase the spikiness of rendered text.

    paddingnumber

    Occasionally some fonts are cropped. Adding some padding will prevent this from happening by adding padding to all sides of the text.

    strokestring number

    A canvas fillstyle that will be used on the text stroke e.g 'blue', '#FCFF00'

    strokeThicknessnumber

    A number that represents the thickness of the stroke. Default is 0 (no stroke)

    textBaselinestring

    The baseline of the text that is rendered.

    trimboolean

    Trim transparent borders

    wordWrapboolean

    Indicates if word wrap should be used

    wordWrapWidthnumber

    The width at which text will wrap, it needs wordWrap to be set to true

    Methods

    clone()PIXI.TextStyle

    TextStyle.js:107

    Creates a new TextStyle object with the same values as this one. Note that the only the properties of the object are cloned.

    Returns:
    Type Description
    PIXI.TextStyle New cloned TextStyle object

    reset()

    TextStyle.js:122

    Resets all properties to the defaults specified in TextStyle.prototype._default

    toFontString()string

    TextStyle.js:652

    Generates a font style string to use for TextMetrics.measureFont().

    Returns:
    Type Description
    string Font style string, for passing to TextMetrics.measureFont()