# Can anyone else confirm? textFont overrides stroke opacity?
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513 "2018-10-16T00:42:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@rapatski](https://discourse.processing.org/u/rapatski)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513/1 "2018-10-16T00:42:26Z")
Hey guys, please see example below to try and recreate the behaviour I’m seeing: when setting the font to a font loaded with loadFont (as opposed to using createFont) all stroke opacity in the sketch is set to 255:
```auto
PFont font;
void setup()
{
size(600, 600, P3D);
pixelDensity(2);
smooth(8);
//font = createFont("Helvetica", 100);
font = loadFont("Helvetica-100.vlw");
// when setting font to loaded font, all stroke opacity is set to full??
textFont(font, 20); // comment out to see normal behaviour
}
void draw()
{
background(255);
// draw some low opacity circles
noFill();
stroke(0, 30);
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(width/2 - 50, height/2 - 50, 300, 300);
ellipse(width/2 + 50, height/2 + 50, 300, 300);
// render some text with a loaded font
fill(0);
textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
text("Strange", width/2, height/2);
}
```
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### Author:  [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513/2 "2018-10-16T03:45:56Z")
can not see that ( win7, processing 3.4 )
```auto
PFont font;
int opaq=120;
void setup()
{
size(600, 600, P3D);
//pixelDensity(2);
smooth(8);
//font = createFont("Helvetica", 100);
// font = loadFont("Helvetica-100.vlw");
font = loadFont("Uni0554-8.vlw");
// when setting font to loaded font, all stroke opacity is set to full??
textFont(font); // comment out to see normal behaviour
println("use mousewheel for adjust");
}
void draw()
{
background(0, 0, 100);
// draw some low opacity circles
noFill();
stroke(200, 200, 0, opaq);
// stroke(0, 30);
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(width/2 - 50, height/2 - 50, 300, 300);
ellipse(width/2 + 50, height/2 + 50, 300, 300);
// render some text with a loaded font
//fill(200, 0, 0);
fill(200, 0, 0, opaq);
textSize(40);
textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
text("TEXT", width/2, height/2);
}
// _______________________________________________________________
void mouseWheel(MouseEvent event) {
opaq += event.getCount()*5;
if ( opaq < 0 ) {
opaq = 0;
}
if ( opaq > 255 ) {
opaq = 255;
}
println("opaq "+opaq);
}
```
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513/3 "2018-10-26T15:50:29Z")
> [@rapatski](#):
>
> recreate the behaviour I’m seeing
@rapatski was this resolved for you, or are you still having a problem on your system?
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### Author:  [@rapatski](https://discourse.processing.org/u/rapatski)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513/4 "2018-10-26T18:48:12Z")
I have not heard of a solution or workaround, but adding my specs: macOS Mohave, Processing 3.4. Anyone else with a mac who can recreate or get it to work on mac?
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### Author:  [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513/5 "2018-10-27T16:22:24Z")
I can confirm this bug on Processing 3.4 with macOS 10.12.
There is something deeply weird going on here. When I tested with noLoop I was getting text-only results, so I changed the test sketch.
In this revised sketch, it renders as normal. Now hold down space for ~1 second to load the font. In the very next frame, only the second text renders – no other lines, including prior lines AND prior text – are drawn at all. In the following frame, all lines are drawn opaque. Are you seeing the same thing?
```auto
// https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-anyone-else-confirm-textfont-overrides-stroke-opacity/4513
PFont font;
boolean loaded;
void setup() {
size(600, 300, P3D);
pixelDensity(2);
smooth(8);
frameRate(1);
}
void draw() {
background(255);
drawCircleText(); // no loaded font
if (keyPressed && !loaded) {
// create the font with PDE > Tools > Create Font > Helvetica, 100
font = loadFont("Helvetica-100.vlw");
// when setting font to loaded font, all prior drawing is lost, then next frame stroke opacity is set to full?
textFont(font, 20);
loaded = true;
}
translate(width/2, 0);
drawCircleText(); // optionally loaded font
}
void drawCircleText() {
// draw intersecting low opacity circles
noFill();
stroke(0, 30);
strokeWeight(5);
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(width/4 - 50, height/2 - 50, 160, 160);
ellipse(width/4 + 50, height/2 + 50, 160, 160);
// render some text
fill(0);
textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
text("Strange", width/4 - 50, height/4);
}
```