Python Turtle, draw text with on screen with larger font

Question

I'm using python turtle's write method to write text on the screen like this:

turtle.write("messi fan")

The size of the font is too small. How can I increase the size of font?

Answer 1

Use the optional font argument to turtle.write(), from the docs:

turtle.write(arg, move=False, align="left", font=("Arial", 8, "normal"))
 Parameters:

• arg – object to be written to the TurtleScreen
• move – True/False
• align – one of the strings “left”, “center” or right”
• font – a triple (fontname, fontsize, fonttype)

So you could do something like turtle.write("messi fan", font=("Arial", 16, "normal")) to change the font size to 16 (default is 8).

Answer 2

You can also use "bold" and "italic" instead of "normal" here. "Verdana" can be used for fontname..

But another question is this: How do you set the color of the text You write?

Answer: You use the turtle.color() method or turtle.fillcolor(), like this:

turtle.fillcolor("blue")

or just:

turtle.color("orange")

These calls must come before the turtle.write() command..

Answer 3

To add bold, italic and underline, just add the following to the font argument:

font=("Arial", 8, 'normal', 'bold', 'italic', 'underline')