XNA C# Drawstring weird boxes

Question

Image: http://i.imgur.com/dJseH.png
I have been working with XNA some time now and this is the first time this has accured
The blacktext is supposed to say "Orc" and the purple "1 / 100" as in experience
However this does not seem to work, it seems as if the text and the backcolor are the same.

This is the drawstring code:

spritebatch.DrawString(basicFont, Player.Name, new Vector2(
                camera.Pos.X - 250, camera.Pos.Y + 85), Color.Black);
spritebatch.DrawString(basicFont, Player.curEXP.ToString() +
                " / " + Player.maxEXP, new Vector2(camera.Pos.X - 185,
                   camera.Pos.Y + 220), Color.Purple);

Basicfont:

<FontName>Kootenay</FontName>
<Size>12</Size>
<Spacing>0</Spacing>
<UseKerning>true</UseKerning>
<Style>Regular</Style>

I thought it could be because the HUD image is a little transparent so I drew some strings on the background which has the same effect.
I made a new font and the same thing happends.

Is the Kootenay font installed on the system ? Can you try with something more common like Arial ? — prthrokz
Did you try using the Sprite Font from the Online Templates. If that doesn't work maybe you are modifying the blending function in the render? — Louis Ricci
its some error with what you set in spritebatch.begin, like alpha blending — Kikaimaru
Does your SpriteBatch.Begin() method include some parameters? It looks like the reason of this is alpha blending, it works weirdly when tinted with Color if non-default. Try drawing with Color.White. You might have to create pre-colored fonts if you won't be able to avoid your problem. — user1306322
I tried Arial same problem. @LastCoder no spritebatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.None, SpriteSortMode.Deferred, SaveStateMode.None, camera.viewMatrix); — SHEePYTaGGeRNeP

SHEePYTaGGeRNeP SHEePYTaGGeRNeP · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-08T07:58:48

It worked. Thank you Kikaimaru.

I had to change SpriteBlendMode to AlphaBlend.

spritebatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.AlphaBlend, SpriteSortMode.Deferred,
                   SaveStateMode.None, camera.viewMatrix);

XNA C# Drawstring weird boxes

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