Python display text with font & color?

Question

Is there a way I can display text on a pygame window using python?

I need to display a bunch of live information that updates and would rather not make an image for

Answer 1

You can use your own custom fonts by setting the font path using pygame.font.Font

pygame.font.Font(filename, size): return Font

example:

pygame.font.init()
font_path = "./fonts/newfont.ttf"
font_size = 32
fontObj = pygame.font.Font(font_path, font_size)

Then render the font using fontObj.render and blit to a surface as in veiset's answer above. :)