xna - How to generate Spritefonts for monogame

I just want to render some text to the screen using:

• monogame 3.0


• MS Visual Studio 2010 C# Express

In XNA, you were able to add fonts to the content pipeline quite easily. But this doesn't seem to be the case in monogame. Loading TTF Files using Content.Load() doesn't work. Is there any way to generate or download *.spritefont files or *.xnb files containing the font data (without resorting to install XNA)?

Answer

An alternative is to use pre-generated bitmap fonts instead. Here's a tutorial I wrote a while back on using the BMFont tool to get text into your game using the MonoGame.Extended library.

http://dylanwilson.net/bmfont-rendering-with-monogame-extended