Fonts in-game?

This completely popped up in mind while looking over the thread asking about different fonts here on the forums. So I was wondering, what if there were different fonts, in-game. I personally think it'd be quite cool, especially when your writing on signs (or whatever Starbound will have ).

EDIT: Holy crap!!! This is the 300th thread on discussion.

 

You and your fonts

They would like to have modding support eventually though, so you might even be able to put in your own fonts!

 

Yes, I love fonts.

But would the mod work in multiplayer? Because fonts would only really have a use in multiplayer.

Apparently, multiplayer isn't word... I never new that. /)_-

 

Hey, you would see text in singleplayer too, the NPCs do talk as well.
More customization is better so I don't see anything wrong with this idea.

 

As a Dev I can confirm that this game will indeed have letters in it.

 

OMGZZ LEAKED INFO!!!one!1

Seriously though, I'd be happy with just a generic "Starbound font" used everywhere.

 

Google Spellcheck...

what a downer.

 

What were you saying about "multiplayer" not being a word?

I'd love the ability to have the name of my ship emblazoned across the hull in calligraphic text, maybe with a 40s-style pinup girl.

 

Than why does it have a little red squiggly line under it.

 

*tries typing "multiplayer" into Google, this reply box, and into Wordpad*
I see no little red squiggly line.

 

It wouldn't be a bad thing to have a selection of fonts available for you to use ingame, but I would prefer that it just used a nice generic font that isn't too fancy.

Just letters? What about words?

 

Words are there, but you just have to use the right crafting recipe to make them.

 

Maybe like WoW? Where there was mod that could do this? But then again they sometimes would bug your game <.< So maybe I'll just stick with original fonts..
~ John

 

Since fonts are handled client-side (at least I think so, since I'm a programmer and the only sensible thing to do is handle it client-side) it would be a no..

 

I WOULD like to see something implemented to allow us to make custom signs that had legible text on them rather than a generic sign with unintelligible writing that requires clicking on and a pop up message to read. I want them to be easy to read in their on-screen image. I do of course realize this won't be possible if the writing upheld the same pixelization as the objects themselves. A reasonable trade off for readable signs in my opinion.

 

I think just having a generic font will be good enough, maybe a different font between signs, idc

 

How would that even make sense? Even if we had ultra high resolution text on them, the sign would either have to be huge or the text would have to be small. Alternatively, we'd have really a really tiny amount of space to type anything out on the sign.

This would make things really hard for people with poor vision, and even though my vision is good, I wouldn't like it either.

 

I'm not talking about putting full pages of a novel on a sign. I'm talking (ugh hate to do this) like the signs in Minecraft. They can at least display a few lines of legible text on a relatively small sign. The text is higher resolution than the sign texture but doesn't look completely out of place.

I just like the idea of being able to actually read the signs you place without having to activate them to do so.

So in short, not full pages of text. Just a few lines allowing several characters of text each so I can label my sign "ARMORY" and actually be able to read it.

 

I could only really see this working client side, meaning only you'd be able to see your font.

I guess there could be a mod for both server/client side options though!

 

Man the staff of starbound are on fire with these jokes. I have to say though times new roman for life down with the ariel font.