Improve WebGL font error message to suggest textFont() usage

yugalkaushik · yugalkaushik · commit 68b37e7f4818 · 2026-02-09T10:48:31.000Z
diff --git a/src/webgl/text.js b/src/webgl/text.js
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ function text(p5, fn) {
 
     if (!p5.Font.hasGlyphData(this.states.textFont)) {
       console.log(
-        'WEBGL: only Opentype (.otf) and Truetype (.ttf) fonts with glyph data are supported'
+        'WEBGL: only Opentype (.otf) and Truetype (.ttf) fonts with glyph data are supported. Make sure to set the font using textFont() before drawing text.'
       );
       return;
     }

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ function text(p5, fn) {`
`685`	`685`
`686`	`686`	`if (!p5.Font.hasGlyphData(this.states.textFont)) {`
`687`	`687`	`console.log(`
`688`		`- 'WEBGL: only Opentype (.otf) and Truetype (.ttf) fonts with glyph data are supported'`
	`688`	`+ 'WEBGL: only Opentype (.otf) and Truetype (.ttf) fonts with glyph data are supported. Make sure to set the font using textFont() before drawing text.'`
`689`	`689`	`);`
`690`	`690`	`return;`
`691`	`691`	`}`