updated to work with current pygame

simple-font-thing.py

import pygame
import time
import sys

width = 800
height = 300

pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))


fontName = pygame.font.get_default_font()
print("using font: %s" % fontName)

myFont = pygame.font.Font(fontName, 60, bold=True, italic=True)
label = myFont.render("READY PLAYER ONE", 1, (255, 255, 0), (0, 255, 0))

while True:
  for e in pygame.event.get():
    if e.type == pygame.QUIT or e.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
      sys.exit()

  win.blit(label, (100, 100)) 
  pygame.display.update()

Displays a line of text on the screen