I am affraid that this question has been asked before (it is a rather simple one), but I really want an aswer, so please don''t flame me. What is the best way to use 2d fonts? Up to now I use fonts on a quad (textured) and place them using a ortho-projection-matrix on the screen. But there are in fact two more ways, wich one will be the fastes of the three stated here, or is there an other (faster) way? * Using glRaterPos(...) (again in an ortho-matrix) and use glBitmap(...), is rather slow (I guess) because there is a lot of traffic from CPU-memory to Video-memory. * Or make 3d chars (using the wgl-Function (windows)) and place them corectly on the screen. But you have got a lot of extra calculations (3d). The main advantage of the second one is that you don''t have to use alpha blending (time consuming). But I guess that this is a common question and there is a really good solution... Thanks up front.

Texture mapped fonts will generally be the fastest.

-Lev