Author Topic: Help me find a font!  (Read 9638 times)

Offline ElOhTeeBee

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Re: Help me find a font!
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2016, 05:21:00 pm »
How about you let the user choose his font in the settings? That would satisfy anyone, except him over there that thinks you don't deserve a choice.

I strongly doubt that's feasible. Different fonts have different letter widths and spacing, which would make designing a UI way more complex than it needs to be.

Offline Atepa

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Re: Help me find a font!
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2016, 02:50:01 pm »
Assuming that the tool tips will be more or less the same as AIC I highly recommend going with a sans-serif font for the actual descriptions, something like Helvetica, Century Gothic, or if you want something with a little more weight to it Franklin Gothic Medium.

As much as I love Times News Roman, the serif on it and others makes them quite hard to read from a computer screen for blocks of text. They'd make a good title or heading font, but I'd leave the actual descriptions as something else.

I'm a simple man of simple tastes: (note: I took these stats from a super old screenshot... it was all I had around at work, heh)

Option 1 (Times New Roman 12pt Header, Centrury Gothic 10pt Body)


Option 2 (Franklin Gothic Medium 12pt Header, Centrury Gothic 10pt Body)


as much as I'd love for things to be at 12pt so I could read them, I think that might be too big for a game though, you'd run out of real estate too quickly. Realistically it would probably be like 8pt fonts