You can also use BMFont on Windows. You should also take into account what prob said; if the font is loaded correctly, the only thing which makes it more expensive is the extra canvas it uses. Before switching to bitmap fonts, you should look into the metrics property of the TextStyle’s configuration and the related text.style.getTextMetrics(). Calculating the metrics is an expensive process which can actually cause perceptible delays if you create a lot of Text objects at once. If all of your text uses the same font, you can re-use the same metrics object for all of them to avoid this.