I need help getting a font in pygame

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Question:
Can somebody give me a font I can use in replit!!!

Current behavior:
It won’t let me use a font.

Desired behavior
I want to use a font.

Repl link:
https://replit.com/@StevenBrixie/space-shooter-2

font = pygame.font.Font('', 20)
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not many are built-in. You could use the built-in ones, using pygame.font.SysFont or upload a font into your repl’s files, and reference that file using pygame.font.Font as you are.
Run in Shell to get the installed fonts on replit:

fc-list : family

DejaVu Sans Mono
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Serif
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Available fonts are listed with pygame.font.get_fonts(). These fonts are usable with pygame.font.SysFont. Note that pygame.font.SysFont will default to the pygame font if the given font is not found.

print(pygame.font.get_fonts())
# ['dejavuserif', 'dejavusansmono', 'dejavusans']
font = pygame.font.SysFont('dejavuserif', 20)
print(font.name)  # 'DejaVu Serif'

pygame.font.Font is for font files. But if you just need any font then you can use the default font by passing in None instead of a file path, which is what I typically use (not system specific).

font = pygame.font.Font(None, 20)

Also, the pygame.freetype module has all of the stuff that pygame.font does but with more features, so I’d recommend using that.

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Thank you for your help!

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You have to do pygame.font.init() on the line before the font.