# My text has become myopic
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736
**Category:** Beginners
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736 "2019-10-16T11:38:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Waboqueox](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Waboqueox)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/1 "2019-10-16T11:38:37Z")
**[This is an Android Studio / P3D question]**
Hi people 👋 ;
I wanted to add a “night mode” to my app, so I made a pair of variables 🕶 :
```auto
int black = 0, white = 255;
```
And changed all my strokes, fill, background with a value of 255 to white and 0 to black:
```auto
stroke(white,125); <---- stroke(255,125);
fill(black); <---- fill(0);
background(black); <---- background(0);
```
Maybe I touched something more, like
```auto
textAlign(CENTER);
imageMode(CENTER);
textMode(CENTER);
rectMode(CENTER);
```
I put higher in my setup but I brought again to the same place, but maybe I touched more things that I don’t remember… 🤔
And my texts have been muted from this: 🤩
to this: 😢
Someone knows how to fix it? thanks in advance 😌
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/2 "2019-10-16T12:21:13Z")
> [@Waboqueox](#):
>
> textMode(CENTER);
That’s weird/ wrong.
Try comment out that line
OR try SHAPE or MODEL as parameter
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### Author:  [@Waboqueox](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Waboqueox)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/3 "2019-10-16T13:05:51Z")
@Chrisir Thanks for answer;
I noticed that textMode(); isn’t useful, so I commented it, but in order to restore the harmony of my texts I added again 😅
Have tried to put that parameters and recommend it again but nothing changes 😢
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/4 "2019-10-16T13:32:46Z")
Do use createFont and textFont please
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### Author:  [@Waboqueox](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Waboqueox)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/5 "2019-10-16T13:49:30Z")
Loading a font the little texts are fixed, the big one (WHEEL) still have some issues, but by the way it can stay like is **(unless someone knows a better solution)**:
```auto
myFont = createFont("Georgia", 32, true);
textFont(myFont);
```
Unfixed:
**Fixed:** \* Don’t know how to put blank spaces\* **At the beginning:**
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/6 "2019-10-16T14:11:53Z")
text reacts to fill not to stroke by the way
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/7 "2019-10-16T14:21:24Z")
very important is the use of `background()` at start of draw()
textMode(SHAPE); is only for certain renderers (not 2D).
renderer is important
```auto
PFont myFont;
void setup() {
// init
size(1200, 600);
background(255);
myFont = createFont("Georgia", 55);
textFont(myFont);
} // func
void draw() {
// runs on and on
background(255);
textAlign(CENTER);
imageMode(CENTER);
textMode(MODEL);
rectMode(CENTER);
fill(255, 0, 0);
text ("Take the Wheel",
width/2, height/2);
} // func
```
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### Author:  [@Waboqueox](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Waboqueox)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/8 "2019-10-16T14:35:18Z")
I used this
```auto
String[] fontList;
PFont myFont;
int ifont =0;
String[] fontList;
public void setup() {
myFont = createFont("Laksaman Bold", 32, true);
textFont(myFont);
fontList = PFont.list();
}
public void draw() {
background(black);
// [things over here] - with the
textSize(95);
text("WHEEL", posX, posY + 20);
}
void mousePressed(){
if(ifont >= fontList.length)
ifont=0;
myFont = createFont(fontList[ifont], 32);
textFont(myFont);
println("Font: "+myFont.getName());
println(" ifont: " + ifont);
ifont++;
}
```
to try all fonts, and happens with all of them; I tried with
```auto
textMode(MODEL); //& later changed to
textMode(SHAPE);
```
And still the same
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/9 "2019-10-16T14:53:42Z")
I recommend to use size() at start of setup()
also use
` myFont = createFont(fontList[ifont], 95);` with correct text size
and don’t use textSize(95);
this looks crisp on my Win 10
```auto
String[] fontList;
PFont myFont;
int ifont =0;
void setup() {
size(800, 800, P2D);
myFont = createFont("Laksaman Bold", 95);
textFont(myFont);
fontList = PFont.list();
// noSmooth();
}
void draw() {
background(0);
// [things over here] - with the
//textSize(95);
text("WHEEL", 333, 444 + 20);
}
void mousePressed() {
if (ifont >= fontList.length)
ifont=0;
myFont = createFont(fontList[ifont], 95);
textFont(myFont);
println("Font: "+myFont.getName());
println(" ifont: " + ifont);
ifont++;
}
//
```
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### Author:  [@Waboqueox](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Waboqueox)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/10 "2019-10-16T15:00:14Z")
Ops, sorry, I didn’t mentioned that I’m in android -\> android Studio in fact; and using P3D ( the size is done in the public void settings() {size(displayWidth, displayHeight, P3D);}), I also have tried to use:
```
hint(DISABLE_DEPTH_TEST);
```
and
```
DISABLE_OPTIMIZED_STROKE
```
But still nothing changes (well, with this last one, the fps drops to 1.67 too)
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### Author:  [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/11 "2019-10-16T17:58:12Z")
I have had blurry fonts in past but no more!
> [@Blurry Text Solution](https://discourse.processing.org/t/blurry-text-solution/11293):
>
> I was using different text sizes in a recent project and was getting blurry fonts. I solve this issue by setting the largest text size in setup() and problem solved! Here is the code I used to test this: /\* Project: Blurry Text Author: GLV Date: 2019-05-15 Version: 01 \*/ void settings() { size(1024, 768, P3D); } void setup() { textSize(128); // Set to largest text size used to prevent blurring of text } void draw() { background(0); text24(); t…
Not recently…
🙂
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### Author:  [@Waboqueox](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Waboqueox)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/my-text-has-become-myopic/14736/12 "2019-10-17T08:06:42Z")
Ohh, yeah @glv, combining the @Chrisir solution and yours it is solved 💃.
> [@Chrisir](#):
>
> `myFont = createFont(fontList[ifont], 95);` with correct text size
Also the solution from @Chrisir was correct 😃 (But the correct size for that text was that, but for other texts was other different size 😅)
But I really don’t know why the blurry fonts appeared in that moment, I mean… I didn’t touch anything referring to the fonts or texts when they became myopic 🤔
Thanks both 🤗