I want to make a “font” script that can make text look like it’s Times New Roman but every 7th letter is jarringly sans serif.
This post is just for jokes but I think this could spark other ideas or possibilities. My current idea to do it is to make individual TextLabel instances with one letter each, space them out properly depending on the letter, and every 7th letter’s font will be a sans serif one.
I put this in scripting support because I almost 100% know that doing this will require scripts.
I would just use rich text textlabels and formatting tags to do this.
function Jarrify(String: string, FontAdd: Enum.Font, SpaceAmount: number)
local JarredString = ""
SpaceAmount = SpaceAmount or 4
local FinalScuffLetter
for Letter=SpaceAmount+1, string.len(String), SpaceAmount do
JarredString = `{JarredString}{string.sub(String, Letter-SpaceAmount+1, Letter-1)}<font face = "{FontAdd.Name}">{string.sub(String, Letter, Letter)}</font>`
FinalScuffLetter = Letter
end
JarredString = `{string.sub(String, 1, 1)}{JarredString}{string.sub(String, FinalScuffLetter+1, -1)}`
return JarredString
end
local Example = Jarrify("This should look super scuffed or im gonna bash my head against the wall.", Enum.Font.Creepster, 3)
Very nice . I’ve just been thinking about small performance optimisations and how string concatenation can be extravagant with memory.
If you don’t mind, following your idea, I found gsub and a matching pattern also work well: . for any character, %w for alphanumeric, and so forth.
local function Jarrify(String: string, FontAdd: Enum.Font, SpaceAmount: number)
local Count = 0
return string.gsub(String, ".", function(Char)
Count += 1
if Count % SpaceAmount == 0 then
return `<font face = "{FontAdd.Name}">{Char}</font>`
else
return Char
end
end)
end
If text body was particularly large, we would maybe benefit from storing the modifications in a table and table.concat() at the return.
. I’ve just been thinking about small performance optimisations and how string concatenation can be extravagant with memory.