[b21] The new font

[Dervis]

I really dislike the font on the new beta... it's a bit too large and too thin for my taste, makes it a bit hard to read, and the tooltips become enormous.
Would you please add a font selection to the game options? Just 3 or 4 options would really be helpful.
Thank you.

P.S. - The solid grey menus arent doing it for me either.

[madmonk]

I agree on the font... very hard to read. Using the option to turn on anti-aliasing helps, but not a lot.

I am not sure I agree on the gray. It is possible it looks bad because of the font choice.

[Elkan]

Yeah I'm hating the new look, I was really really looking forward to the new build but turned it off about about 5 minutes it bugged me to the point of unplayability. The new menus are really painful on the eye compared to the nice clean green on black, and the new font in particular is just awful. I appreciate the work that has gone into it, but the the game lost all of the visual appeal it had previously, and now looks like a cheap and hastily assembled flash MMO.

By all means include this as an option for those who like them, but please, please let us have the option of the original look.

[Canderel]

My view:

I love the font. In some places it may be impractical, but I find it beautiful.

It looks decent in the inventory (though some of you guys doesn't like it), even in the output window and for stuff like lore. The tooltips need to be optimized for "smallness" (on that, when I am in the southeast corner of a dungeon, please make the tooltips appear in the top left, or bottom left, even of the "playarea", it comes in the way, of monsters I want to hover over).

But I feel if you choose a font it should be the same for all of the similar parts of the game. Ie. Lets have all lore and dialog in the new font, and have the message output, inventory --- functional stuff, in a sans serif font (though doesn't need to be monospaced).

[Postman]

I also like old look better. New menus especially have washed-out businesslike look, like something from microsoft office

[faustgeist]

I also like the new font... but agree that a font choice and a scalable font would be ideal. I play on a 30inch monitor and I am sure my setting would be horrid on a 17. So the more flexibility you can offer the user the better. Well done!

~R

[shooth]

I find the awesomeness of the font changes with the size of the screen I'm playing on. While on my laptop, it is impractical and cumbersome. With an oversized monitor, I likey-likey.

Hello Font Options!

shooth

[greycat]

Mixed feelings on the font here. It looks good some of the time, and bad the rest of the time. There are certain letter/number/punctuation combos that are just plain awful to try to read (especially the thin characters, like l or 1 or ], and most especially when there are a bunch of those in a row).

19" LCD monitor with 1280x1024 native resolution. I play the game in a 1024x768 window.

I'm guessing the topic should say [b21] not [21b], unless I missed an announcement.

[FishyBug]

I agree. I need a monospaced font to play. I play in ascii mode and am not really interested in things looking 'pretty'. My mind does that for me I currently have to really concentrate to read the font being used. Also, I don't like the new color scheme of the dialog boxes.

It's been a great update otherwise though

Thanks,
FishyBug

[Final Master]

Can somebody then give the locations where the font and size works, and where it doesn't work please?

[Canderel]

Lore and chat windows are fine with the new font.

Generally my biggest gripe is the vertical space lost due to the font hieght. So tooltips, talent windows, text output and chat window. It seems to have big spaces inbetween lines.

Also in the floating text - damage on the game screen - needs a plainer font.

[darkgod]

Next beta you can choose the UI theme and the font theme/size

[Final Master]

I have to say, I do like the new font, even though it is a bit computer-y looking in some places - but there are a few characters that are hard to tell apart on some menus - though I haven't ran into any issue like that during crucial game play or in any amount of an annoyance level.