Snatiago Posted April 20, 2024 Report Posted April 20, 2024 when i find lore books i feel like im filing my taxes. immigration papers have more class than the font in this game please change it. i get it might be a big deal for the size of the text bugging out and ruining a lot of formatting in the game. if you just change it to something similar in size but with some actual elegance to it, then the game might actually look nice for once. FOR ONCE. 1
Clockwork Mind Posted October 2, 2024 Report Posted October 2, 2024 (edited) I actually agree about how bad the default font looks (though perhaps not your specific phrasing of the issue). To me it makes the game feel cheap and amateurish, like I'm playing a pre-alpha build that wasn't really meant to be seen. Given just how well-unified most of the game's aesthetic is, I was shocked that the text has been left so plain and unfitting. Almost as shocked as I was to find that apparently nobody else seems to notice or care. Fortunately, you can actually change the default font to any of the fonts you have installed on your computer! And I am about to utter the instructions for seemingly only the second time in human history, echoing the ancient wisdom of the sage, Jobediah Timberman, the sacred text of which be found in this random post about a mod they updated. I spent ages testing out dozens of fonts that might fit the game well, but couldn't beat Jobediah's suggestion of Albertus Medium. Good style for the game, and good thickness and readability for the resolution. 0. (To install a newly downloaded font, like Albertus) Unzip and open the TTF file like any document, and Windows Font Viewer has an Install button at the top. 1. Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData and open clientsettings.json. (Make sure the game is not running while you edit it.) 2. Find the line with "defaultFontName" and edit the value to "Albertus Medium" (or whatever your chosen font is called) and save the change. (You can also change the "Decorative Font" on the next line if you want, but Lora is already good.) 3. Open the game, and the change should be made! Happy reading Edited October 2, 2024 by Clockwork Mind 1
Snatiago Posted October 2, 2024 Author Report Posted October 2, 2024 3 hours ago, Clockwork Mind said: I actually agree about how bad the default font looks (though perhaps not your specific phrasing of the issue). To me it makes the game feel cheap and amateurish, like I'm playing a pre-alpha build that wasn't really meant to be seen. Given just how well-unified most of the game's aesthetic is, I was shocked that the text has been left so plain and unfitting. Almost as shocked as I was to find that apparently nobody else seems to notice or care. Fortunately, you can actually change the default font to any of the fonts you have installed on your computer! And I am about to utter the instructions for seemingly only the second time in human history, echoing the ancient wisdom of the sage, Jobediah Timberman, the sacred text of which be found in this random post about a mod they updated. I spent ages testing out dozens of fonts that might fit the game well, but couldn't beat Jobediah's suggestion of Albertus Medium. Good style for the game, and good thickness and readability for the resolution. 0. (To install a newly downloaded font, like Albertus) Unzip and open the TTF file like any document, and Windows Font Viewer has an Install button at the top. 1. Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData and open clientsettings.json. (Make sure the game is not running while you edit it.) 2. Find the line with "defaultFontName" and edit the value to "Albertus Medium" (or whatever your chosen font is called) and save the change. (You can also change the "Decorative Font" on the next line if you want, but Lora is already good.) 3. Open the game, and the change should be made! Happy reading plain and simple! look how easy it would be for tyron to fix his game up!
Clockwork Mind Posted October 3, 2024 Report Posted October 3, 2024 21 hours ago, Guimoute said: Even the one used for tapestries: I can't quite tell if this is a question or a statement, or what exactly you're saying with it, so this response is a hail-mary. I do believe that is Lora, which is the game's "decorative font." You can also see it on the menu buttons and several other places. You can change it in the same way as the default font. I've never had a problem with how it looks, so I've never bothered finding a replacement.
Clockwork Mind Posted October 3, 2024 Report Posted October 3, 2024 20 hours ago, Snatiago said: plain and simple! look how easy it would be for tyron to fix his game up! Unfortunately it really isn't so plain and simple for him as it is for us. Between the fact that players donât like change (even changes I consider to be almost objectively for the better), and questions of readability and accessibility for different visual and neurological conditions, just the process of selecting a single default font that works for everyone is far tougher than it might seem. And more importantly, even if you found the perfect font, actually using it in the game runs up against the Final Boss of game development: Licensing. I am not a lawyer, and couldnât divine the exact terms of Albertus Mediumâs license, but Iâm pretty sure you couldnât package it with a game and sell it for money without paying a license. If youâve ever been annoyed at needing to pay a few dollars for a font you found online, just imagine how that would scale up for a game youâre selling to thousands. I first went down this rabbit-hole 18 months ago, when I first got the game, saw and hated the default font, and found Jobediahâs sacred wisdom. I was doing my research in order to write a petition to Tyron about changing the gameâs default font. Then I unearthed all these complexities and complications, and scrapped the petition. Much as it galls me, I have to accept that because the game does allow you to customize your font with the json file, the existing situation is acceptable enough for now. The smallest scale of a solution is making this sacred wisdom more widely known, which is why I posted my reply in the first place. I want more people to know they can do this, I want more people to see this thread when they search âfontâ on the forums. Maybe have it added to the wiki as well. One step up from that solution would be a mod that adds a menu option for selecting fonts, that just changes the values of clientsettings.json. A step up from that would be that menu option being added to the vanilla game. Then finally the biggest solution would be if someone made a brand new font (which I have honestly considered doing, probably inspired by Albertus) and made it public domain (or whatever is the legal term for âyou can use it in commercial productsâ), so Tyron could add it to the game without licensing issues. Would probably still want the customizing menu option in any case. The reason I havenât put any effort into making a mod, or especially a font, is because I donât know if anybody would even care. If everybody else loves the default font, I donât want to put a ton of effort into making it easy for them to change. Iâm just forum posting for now, in the hopes that more potential people whoâre annoyed by the font will have the opportunity to find this. Hopefully this helps some people. 1
Brady_The Posted October 3, 2024 Report Posted October 3, 2024 37 minutes ago, Clockwork Mind said: The reason I havenât put any effort into making a mod No need to. Somebody else already did. https://mods.vintagestory.at/fontsettings
Clockwork Mind Posted October 4, 2024 Report Posted October 4, 2024 5 hours ago, Brady_The said: No need to. Somebody else already did. https://mods.vintagestory.at/fontsettings WAIT. Created ONE day ago?? Oh my god, thank you so much for letting me know about this font mod! And thank you to the creator!
Itinerant Posted May 3, 2025 Report Posted May 3, 2025 On 10/2/2024 at 12:19 PM, Clockwork Mind said: I spent ages testing out dozens of fonts that might fit the game well, but couldn't beat Jobediah's suggestion of Albertus Medium. Good style for the game, and good thickness and readability for the resolution. I like Footlight MT Light, personally! Thanks for the information!
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