How to find a font via script?

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Another one that should be really easy, but which is mysteriously elusive to me. Okay, so I have imported a custom font through the TTF Importer, which was very easy. Now how do I reference that font through code in order to actually tie it to some custom GUIStyles, etc? GameObject.Find nor GetComponent seem to be the right thing.

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Answer by Eric5h5 · Mar 17, 2010 at 12:02 AM

var someFont : Font;
var style : GUIStyle;
style.font = someFont;

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x4000 · Mar 17, 2010 at 12:43 AM 0

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This is just creating an empty font, yes? Unless I am misunderstanding something. I want to find a reference to an existing font that I have already imported through the Unity editor -- but I want to find access to it in code, so that I can do essentially what you are describing in your second two lines. That part is straightforward, but on that first line of your code I want to find a reference to an existing font rather than declaring a new, empty one.

Eric5h5 · Mar 17, 2010 at 01:29 AM 0

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@x4000: It's not creating a font, it's creating a public variable that you use to reference the font. (I forgot to mention the part about those being public variables. ;) ) You can drag the font you want onto the public variable.

x4000 · Mar 17, 2010 at 02:26 AM 0

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Ah, okay -- the public variable with dragging through the interface solves it. That's good enough for making an ongoing reference I can then use later. Thanks!

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Answer by Jaap Kreijkamp · Mar 16, 2010 at 11:48 PM

Place the font in the Resources folder and use Resources.Load to load assets dynamically.

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x4000 · Mar 17, 2010 at 12:40 AM 0

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That is really helpful, actually, but not quite what I am looking to do. In this case I already have the font imported just fine into the game, but I am looking to access the imported version of it that I can then render. In other words, it is called "Regular" as a font. But, I can't seem to set a Name for it in the editor that I can see (a lot of grayed out controls), and I don't see any methods on the Font class for finding a reference to an existing font. I see how GameObjects can be looked up, but that does not seem to work for fonts...

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Answer by cedw032 · Jun 24, 2013 at 05:52 AM

var font:Font = Instantiate( Font.FindObjectsOfTypeAll( Font )[0] );

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TwoWholeWorms · Jan 30, 2015 at 04:35 PM 1

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Font.FindObjectsOfTypeAll() is now deprecated. As of Unity 5, the C# equivalent of the above code is as follows: Font font = Instantiate (Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll (typeof (Font))[0]) as Font;

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