# love.graphics.setFont

Set an already-loaded Font as the current font or create and load a new one from the file and size.

It's recommended that Font objects are created with love.graphics.newFont in the loading stage and then passed to this function in the drawing stage.

## Function

### Synopsis

    love.graphics.setFont( font )

### Arguments

`Font font`
  The Font object to use.

### Returns

Nothing.

## Function

Removed in LÖVE 0.8.0
This variant is not supported in that and later versions.

### Synopsis

    love.graphics.setFont( filename, size )

### Arguments

`string filename`
  The filepath to the font.
`number size (12)`
  The size of the font.

### Returns

Nothing.

## Function

Removed in LÖVE 0.8.0
This variant is not supported in that and later versions.

This variant creates a new font using the default font and the size specified, and sets it as the current font. Do not use this function in love.update or love.draw. That would create a new font every frame, eating up memory very quickly.

### Synopsis

    love.graphics.setFont( size )

### Arguments

`number size (12)`
  The size of the font.

### Returns

Nothing.

## Examples

### Draw some text with default font, 18px

    function love.graphics.load()
      love.graphics.setFont(love.graphics.newFont(18))
    end

    function love.draw()
    	love.graphics.print("Hello", 300, 300)
    end

### Draw some text with custom font, 18px

    function love.load()
        Font = love.graphics.newFont("font.ttf", 18)
    end

    function love.draw()
        love.graphics.setFont(Font)
        love.graphics.print("Hello World", 0, 0)
    end

## See Also

- love.graphics
- love.graphics.newFont
- love.graphics.getFont

##

Category:

- Functions