When using love.graphics.setIcon, I provided a transparent .PNG of an icon that contains shadows (semi-transparent). These shadows turned black, as well as every other semi-transparent pixel in the icon.

Is there any way to fix this besides making everything solid and ugly?

Resolved.
My problem was that I was calculating the width of the text using the font from the username, where one is bold and the other is not.

Simply recall the setColor method.

love.graphics.setColor(...)
love.graphics.rectangle(...)
love.graphics.setColor(...)
love.graphics.rectangle(...)

I am running into an issue. It seems :getWidth() isn't returning proper values. I attached a picture of what is happening. As my string gets shorter/longer, the getWidth method returns different values that aren't proper. Any ideas? This is the code to init the objects , using my GUI system for disp...

Thanks! I found this right before you posted.

I am working on a chat box, and would like the usernames of people to be colored, and the text to be white. However, I want the chat text to be positioned a few pixels after the username, so it shows like below: Bannana97: Hello everyone! Albert: Hey! Notice how the text isn't aligned. Is there any ...

Did you make the game.love file?

It only accesses the disk about 2 times...

Fortunately I only need math.random once.

No, once every second.
It's how I did it, it doesn't affect framerate in any way, it works for me.