newbe Q: using font in games

is there a easy (resource efficient) way of using custom fonts in our games? can the fonts be "embedded" in the game and used easily with a "font plugin" or something that lets you print any string on screen with the font you've saved as your custom-game-font?

You could use textboxes and selected the custom font. You can select every font, which is installed on your computer.

Not a good idea ... the font won't be displayed if the user doesn't has it installed on his PC ... try the spritefont plugin !

Edit: Okay, thanks sqiddster.

OK, firstly, if a user doesn't have a font, it won't work. Luckily you DO NOT need to resort to spritefont, however. There's a good tutorial here:

scirra.com/tutorials/237/how-to-use-your-own-web-fonts/page-1

That has all you need to know.

I would add using web fonts in the text object to sqiddster already linked tutorial, and that's about what you need indeed.

would "web fonts" be available to everyone, on any platform (including games on android/iphone/etc). i want to use a custom font that would be "part of the game" and available to anyone that wants to play the game... and wasnt sure what was the easiest, most efficient way of doing it. is it too much "trouble" to do such a thing; shall i use "web fonts" instead?