Time for action – embedding a Google web font into the canvas element
Let's draw the Canvas texts with a handwriting style font:
- First, go to the Google font directory and choose a handwriting style font. I used the font Rock Salt and you can get it from the following URL:http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Rock+Salt.
- The Google font directory provides a CSS link code that we can add to our game in order to embed the font. Add the following CSS link to the head of
index.html
:<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rock+Salt' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
- The next thing is to use the font. We open the
untangle.drawing.js
JavaScript file and modify the contextfont
property in thedrawLevelProgress
function to the following:ctx.font ...
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