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Offline Fury

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If you want to discuss about technical aspect about getting fonts into the game, please read and post to this topic about fonttool.

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.

 

Offline Rodo

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I'm guessing the Stop font is not an option then right?, given it's already like the "mandatory" font for capship nameplates.
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Offline Shivan Hunter

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I would hardly even call that thing a font.

 

Offline Fury

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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.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Yeah, Stop is like a strange joke.

 

Offline Rodo

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see... so a font to use in the layout, ok I agree there... no stop font.
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Offline Lucika

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Times New Roman FTW. :P
HLP member 2008-2012 and Syrk:TUW project leader ~2010-2012

 
Times New Roman FTW. :P
Times New Roman is very nice, but not very FS to me.

 

Offline The E

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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.
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Offline General Battuta

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Aye, no serifs.

 
There's always Arial or Verdana.  Both are clean and pretty readable at small sizes.

 

Offline sigtau

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Pirulen is very bank-gothic-ish, has very small distinctions between caps (if any), and looks good at smaller sizes.
Who uses forum signatures anymore?

 

Offline IronBeer

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Agency FB was used in Freelancer, may be applicable here.
"I have approximate knowledge of many things."

Ridiculous, the Director's Cut

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Offline swashmebuckle

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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.

 

Offline Shivan Hunter

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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

  

Offline Rodo

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define freespacy'...
does it have to resemble somewhat the actuall font?

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