# Having some issues with rendering text
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603
**Category:** Processing for Android
**Created:** [December 29, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603 "2020-12-29T23:27:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@VigneshV](https://discourse.processing.org/u/VigneshV)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/1 "2020-12-29T23:27:56Z")
I keep getting the following error despite me trying both createFonts() and loadFonts(). Does anyone else have this issue with processing 3 in android mode? Could anyone please tell me a way to tackle this?
Thank you
Inefficient font rendering: use createFont() with a TTF/OTF instead of loadFont().
FATAL EXCEPTION: Animation Thread
Process: processing.test.try\_with\_five\_meters, PID: 26610
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 9763216 byte allocation with 9081184 free bytes and 8868KB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456
at processing.a2d.PGraphicsAndroid2D.loadPixels(PGraphicsAndroid2D.java:2011)
at processing.a2d.PGraphicsAndroid2D.endDraw(PGraphicsAndroid2D.java:249)
at meter.Meter.drawMeterScaleLabels(Meter.java:1562)
at meter.Meter.updateMeter(Meter.java:366)
at processing.test.try\_with\_five\_meters.try\_with\_five\_meters.draw(try\_with\_five\_meters.java:133)
at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(PApplet.java:1852)
at processing.core.PSurfaceNone.callDraw(PSurfaceNone.java:476)
at processing.core.PSurfaceNone$AnimationThread.run(PSurfaceNone.java:516)
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### Author:  [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/2 "2020-12-30T00:48:36Z")
Hi, @VigneshV Can you send a link to the font? A zip from Drive or something.?
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### Author:  [@VigneshV](https://discourse.processing.org/u/VigneshV)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/3 "2020-12-30T01:04:08Z")
Hi @noel, thank you. Here is the zip of my data folder with three different fonts that I tried: [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oo8fVVAddfnqgkEg9ar\_cF44vgtMRaFk?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oo8fVVAddfnqgkEg9ar_cF44vgtMRaFk?usp=sharing)
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### Author:  [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/4 "2020-12-30T02:21:59Z")
Please give a free link. I don’t have permission.
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### Author:  [@VigneshV](https://discourse.processing.org/u/VigneshV)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/5 "2020-12-30T02:35:39Z")
Sorry, I didn’t notice. [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1oo8fVVAddfnqgkEg9ar\_cF44vgtMRaFk](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1oo8fVVAddfnqgkEg9ar_cF44vgtMRaFk)
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### Author:  [@SNICKRS](https://discourse.processing.org/u/SNICKRS)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/6 "2020-12-30T03:21:40Z")
I use fonts all the time in processing. For .vlw files, use loadFont(), for ttf or otf, use createFont(). Also, sometimes I get a bug when the extension is TTF instead of ttf, and it works when I change that.
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### Author:  [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/having-some-issues-with-rendering-text/26603/7 "2020-12-30T15:13:14Z")
I have teste all three fonts on a Samsung 10, and a Lollipop, and they render perfectly.
```auto
PFont fontA;
void setup() {
fullScreen();
background(0, 0, 255);
textAlign(CENTER);
fontA = createFont("Aaargh.ttf", 80);
textFont(fontA);
text("ABC123abc", width/2, height/2);
}
```