Update 2nd April 2018: Added final stage support ePaper (Waveshare) displays plus an example (others to follow).
Update 26th March 2018: Added support for 1 bit per pixel Sprites. Example to follow with ePaper (Waveshare) support.
Update 10th March 2018: Added support for 8 bit parallel interface TFTs when used with ESP32 (Touch not supported yet on parallel displays)
Update 24th February 2018: Added new smooth (antialiased) fonts. See Smooth Font examples and Tools folder for the font generator. Fonts can include characters with 16 bit Unicodes (Basic Multilingual Plane).
# TFT_eSPI
An Arduino IDE compatible graphics and fonts library for ESP8266 and ESP32 processors with a driver for ILI9341, ILI9163, ST7735, S6D02A1, ILI9481, ILI9488, ILI9486 and HX8357 based TFT displays that support SPI. 8 bit parallel interface TFTs (e.g. UNO format mcufriend shilds) can used with an ESP32.
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Configuration of the library font selections, pins used to interface with the TFT and other features is made by editting the User_Setup.h file in the library folder, or by selecting a configuration in the library "User_Setup_Selet,h" file. Fonts and features can easily be disabled by commenting out lines.
Smooth font files in "vlw" format are generated by the free [Processing IDE](https://processing.org/) using a sketch included in the library Tools folder. This sketch with the Processing IDE can be used to generate font files from your computer's font set or any TrueType (.ttf) font, the font file can include **any** combination of 16 bit Unicode characters. This means Greek, Japanese and any other UCS-2 glyphs can be used. Character arrays and Strings in UTF-8 format are supported.
**Anti-aliased Fonts**
Anti-aliased (smooth) font files in "vlw" format are generated by the free [Processing IDE](https://processing.org/) using a sketch included in the library Tools folder. This sketch with the Processing IDE can be used to generate font files from your computer's font set or any TrueType (.ttf) font, the font file can include **any** combination of 16 bit Unicode characters. This means Greek, Japanese and any other UCS-2 glyphs can be used. Character arrays and Strings in UTF-8 format are supported.
The smooth font example dispays the following screen:
It would be possible to compress the vlw font files but the rendering performance to a TFT is still good when storing the font file(s) in SPIFFS.
