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  • There might be a case where you need to take a small font in Espruino and double the size of it (maybe to save memory, maybe because it looks cool).

    There's nothing built in, but this bit of code might be handy and is reasonably fast:

    // txt=text string, px=>x position, py=>y position, h=height of font
    Graphics.prototype.drawStringDbl = (txt,px,py,h)=>{
      var g2 = Graphics.createArrayBuffer(128,h,2,{msb:­true});
      // set your custom font here if you need to
      var w = g2.stringWidth(txt);
      var c = (w+3)>>2;
      g2.drawString(txt);
      var img = {width:w*2,height:1,transparent:0,buffer­:new ArrayBuffer(c)};
      var a = new Uint8Array(img.buffer);
      for (var y=0;y<h;y++) {    
        a.set(new Uint8Array(g2.buffer,32*y,c));
        this.drawImage(img,px,py+y*2);
        this.drawImage(img,px,py+1+y*2);
      }
    };
    
    g.clear()
    g.drawStringDbl("Hello",0,0,5)
    g.flip()
    

    The built-in font is very small and upscaling it isn't ideal, but some of the fonts from http://www.espruino.com/Fonts upscale a lot better.

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