How to Change Your Game's Font

[Clockwork Mind]

The vanilla game allows you to set the font of its text, using any font on your computer. But almost nobody knows this is possible, and even fewer know how.

0. The hardest part of this is actually finding another font that looks good and works well for the game. It's truly so much harder than you'd think. After dozens of hours of searching, the best I've found is Caudex Bold. (Honorable mention to Albertus Medium, which is amazing for everything except rendering the corrupted text in chats sent with low stability/during a storm.) Download the font, unzip and open the TTF file, and install it.

1. Go to C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData and open clientsettings.json. (Make sure the game is not running while you edit it, or your changes won't save.)

2. Find the line with "defaultFontName" and edit the value to the name of your font and save the change. You can also change the "Decorative Font" on the next line, which is the text rendered on Menu buttons and lore discovery text, among other things.

3. Save the file, open the game, and the change should be made! Happy reading! 

 

Here are some in-game examples of Caudex Bold (and Unifraktur Maguntia for Decorative Text).

Edited September 22, 2025 by Clockwork Mind
Forgot an image

[Never Jhonsen]

Thank you for this information. I've applied "Andy Bold" to mine and I think it works quite well

Edited September 22, 2025 by Never Jhonsen
Add some pictures <3

[MNIShadeey]

thank you for this! //media.invisioncic.com/r268468/emoticons/biggrin.png

Edited February 15 by MNIShadeey

[Broccoli Clock]

Wasn't aware of this being a possibility but then the nature of the way the game is built it totally makes sense. 

Being a dev, I have fairly strong views on what font should be used where, and while there is no doubt I'll hate most people's choices the fact it's possible is great for accessibility. In fact if accessibility, rather than just legibility, is your primary concern then I think it's fair to say such an option should be built into the game's existing accessibility options.

 

Edit: without looking, I guess this draws the font from your OSs font directory, so you need to have it installed. If that is the case then I'd much prefer for the font to link to a local version of the ttf/otf/woff/etc rather than from the OS files. 

Edited Saturday at 12:31 PM by Broccoli Clock