I'm trying to change the color of the font I use in my application. But whatever I try the font remains black. I made this font using Hiero font tool.

My code is something like this:

    SpriteBatch batch = new SpriteBatch();

    BitmapFont font = new BtimapFont( Gdx.files.internal(MainAssets.pathToAssets + "font/comic.fnt"), Gdx.files.internal(MainAssets.pathToAssets +  "font/comic.png"), false );

In render where I draw the font:

    batch.begin();

    font.setColor(1, 0, 0, 1);

    font.draw(batch, "Hello World!", 0, 0);

    batch.end();