Feature Request (easy one) - Text thickness

[BlackCoffee]

@JustTryingToWork Thank you for the input

I’ll respond to specific’s but, first…

I use Kicad version 7 (v7) and won’t upgrade. I suspect most of my comments/opinions still apply to v8 and v9

Two years ago I posted (this) and, thus, you can imagine problems arising from different fonts and tweaking them.

New Kicad projects get the Font-Settings from the kicad_pro file and the resulting New PCB implements them into the Project’s kicad_pcb file. It is this file that the Code-Actions will modify.
(Note: Could make it happen on Single project or All the Project files in your selected Directory).

As it stands now, my intent for Linear will simply multiply the Currently saved HWT settings in the kicad_pcb file by some value.
Thus, if Linear=1.75 and H=1, W-0.85, T=-.15, then the new values will be H=1.75, W=1.488, T=0.263.

I could have a Reset-Button to reset to (? some default)

@JustTryingToWork

Nice! My main suggestion at the moment would be to add in a button to suggest an ideal thickness depending on which types of text are selected via your check boxes. It could be a button to the left of “Set It” maybe called “Suggested Thickness” or “Auto-Thickness” or something more succinct. Then I’m ready to download and start using it!

Suggested or Auto would require lookup table for a multitude of fonts, so, this is Not something I want to bother with (too many fonts and too much work…).

Thus, it seems best to have User Enter desired individual HWT (as shown in the GUI)

@JustTryingToWork

If I really put my mind to it, I bet we can come up with something creative that might draw PCB artists to the plug-in, maybe a few more font selection settings either via an additional dialog that can pop up after clicking a select font button, or just make the dialog a bit bigger and have the complete font selection/style/color options there on the same screen.

As indicated above, not all Fonts are usable by Kicad and, though Kicad can be used someone with Artistic Font’s interest, it’s a tiny user population to bother with.
That said, Kicad current can nicely deal with using Artistic/Fonts/etc via the Image-Converter tool in the Main-Panel - See Example below of some Fonts exported to Footprint’s Silk-Layer

@JustTryingToWork

This is probably not possible since fonts are displayed, not bitmaps. Unless you want to make a text to footprint style converter function. Vectorizing raster images? Ok… lots of bad ideas here maybe.

As indicated above…

@JustTryingToWork

Colors would be good, but you’d have to hook into the board setup and change the silk colors per layer. This is probably aiming a little too high, but the more I think about it, the more I think it could probably work. This is more or less how they do PCB art in general: different layers of different colored screen printing.

In v7, colors are those of the Layer they’re placed on and Not something I care to bother with… and I suspect not many PCB fab houses can do Color…

Below shows three Footprints from the Converter (used BMP, PNG, TIFF). I did Not bother to tweak their Quality or Size (just loaded as-is, exported from LibreOffice’s Draw)