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Offline General Battuta

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
How about now?


 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
I'd have to see it in-game, but it's still not really working for me. Part of it is the weird spacing and thin letters (one of which I imagine you can't control).

 

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
And the square-ish lowercase letters. Note that FS2's default font doesn't even have lowercase letters, versus this... ick.

It's just unreadable.

 

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It's hard to read because of the stretchiness of the letters.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
I think it looks kinda nice and Vasudany.

It'd probably look better if you removed the ass square background.

  

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It is a nice font...


...when it is NOT scaled down to size 9 or 10, then scaled up again through the horribleness that is the FSO interface.

Simpler fonts, like this



do work better.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It is a nice font...


...when it is NOT scaled down to size 9 or 10, then scaled up again through the horribleness that is the FSO interface.

Simpler fonts, like this

*snip*

do work better.

Even so, IMO your lowercase I is a bit too narrow. And it's still got that whole boxiness issue in the corners/edges of the letters. Of course, that's an SCP issue, probably, rather than an issue with your particular font.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It is a nice font...


...when it is NOT scaled down to size 9 or 10, then scaled up again through the horribleness that is the FSO interface.

Simpler fonts, like this



do work better.

I dunno if that's much better either. Hrm.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It's actually quite readable, unlike the other.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It is more readable...but it's like...
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Offline BlackDove

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
I like it.

Better than the jerked off standard. We've been staring at that for 12 years.

Please. Change is very welcome.

 

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
better.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
I like it.

Better than the jerked off standard. We've been staring at that for 12 years.

Please. Change is very welcome.

I agree.  It would be a welcomed improvement over the current font.

 

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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It is a nice font...


...when it is NOT scaled down to size 9 or 10, then scaled up again through the horribleness that is the FSO interface.

Simpler fonts, like this



do work better.

I dunno if that's much better either. Hrm.

This font is so readable, I can quote the post that it is lvlshotted in and still read it without having to open it in a new tab. I'm not kidding; it's that readable.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
Yes, it is ridiculously readable, but I do also understand that there's nothing exciting about the font, so I hesitate to say it's better, although I can definitely see it as a good option.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
SegoeUI, AKA the Windows Vista/7 standard UI font.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
No wonder it looks familiar.
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Re: A celebration of FreeSpace
It's a font, they're not supposed to look exciting, they're supposed to be readable.  For something containing numerous sentences, such as tech room descriptions or messages, give me Arial any day over SpikeyFuturisticFont425.
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