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Title: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Fury on December 01, 2010, 12:16:51 pm: If you want to discuss about technical aspect about getting fonts into the game, please read and post to this topic about fonttool (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=63607.0).

In this topic I would like to discuss about suitable fonts to use in FS2, fonts that are
1) high-quality
2) free to use
3) freespacey
4) proper capitalization, as in letters aren't all in caps

I would have liked to use Google's Droid font, but certain people didn't like it. I don't really know why, but there you go. So I'm still looking for a good font to use.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Rodo on December 01, 2010, 01:00:03 pm: I'm guessing the Stop font is not an option then right?, given it's already like the "mandatory" font for capship nameplates.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Shivan Hunter on December 01, 2010, 01:00:49 pm: I would hardly even call that thing a font.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Fury on December 01, 2010, 01:05:55 pm: Quote from: Rodo on December 01, 2010, 01:00:03 pm
I'm guessing the Stop font is not an option then right?, given it's already like the "mandatory" font for capship nameplates.
Hell no. Wouldn't want to look at it all around HUD, briefings, etc.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 01:09:06 pm: Yeah, Stop is like a strange joke.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Rodo on December 01, 2010, 01:35:40 pm: see... so a font to use in the layout, ok I agree there... no stop font.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Lucika on December 01, 2010, 03:26:50 pm: Times New Roman FTW. :P
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: AugustusVarius on December 01, 2010, 06:03:51 pm: Quote from: Lucika on December 01, 2010, 03:26:50 pm
Times New Roman FTW. :P
Times New Roman is very nice, but not very FS to me.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: The E on December 01, 2010, 06:06:53 pm: Also utterly unsuitable for FS interface usage.

The parameters here are that the font has to be readable at a size that is somewhere between 7 and 9 points, and serif-ed fonts generally suffer there.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 06:07:11 pm: Aye, no serifs.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: AugustusVarius on December 01, 2010, 06:10:59 pm: There's always Arial or Verdana. Both are clean and pretty readable at small sizes.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: sigtau on December 01, 2010, 06:15:51 pm: Pirulen is very bank-gothic-ish, has very small distinctions between caps (if any), and looks good at smaller sizes.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: IronBeer on December 01, 2010, 06:32:42 pm: Agency FB was used in Freelancer, may be applicable here.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: swashmebuckle on December 01, 2010, 07:30:22 pm: I've already got Franklin Gothic up and running for FotG, though it's not hugely FSish. If what I talked about is this thread could be implemented, mod's wouldn't be limited to horribly stretched 7 point ugliness for the interface:

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=72645.0

Bank Gothic is extremely fat because of the little caps, so I would guess that most fonts would be able to use significantly larger sizes and still have their horizontal spacing fit in with the interface.
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Shivan Hunter on December 01, 2010, 10:17:47 pm: Verdana has my vote. Simple and clean. Actually, any "simple and clean" font works well IMO. Agency FB always seemed a bit to narrow for me, but if it's readable it should be fine.

Or Comic Sans trololololol
Title: Re: Freespacey fonts
Post by: Rodo on December 02, 2010, 11:59:50 am: define freespacy'...
does it have to resemble somewhat the actuall font?

I use : Dejavu Sans in notepad, it works just fine in size 8.