New font!

Discussion in 'Dev Blog' started by Tiy, Jan 13, 2015.

  1. Hunter_J

    Hunter_J Industrial Terraformer


    What about this weird s german people sometimes use, specially the older ones when writing barrel in german (think its Der Fass or something just with a different letter which is not double s?)
    Havent got it on my keyboard, but it looks similar to a captial Beta or weirdly written B
     
  2. Kawa

    Kawa Tiy's Beard

    ß?
     
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  3. Harakhti

    Harakhti Phantasmal Quasar

    Yeah, scharfes.
    If this brings UTF-8 support for chat, I'll fishy* up.

    *May or may not be related to Hylotl activities.
     
  4. Hunter_J

    Hunter_J Industrial Terraformer

    Yeah that one exactly that one. Wondering if that is aswell in the new font. Or for that matter these: ê, é,è
     
  5. Kawa

    Kawa Tiy's Beard

    Why not wait like... a few hours, maybe?
     
  6. That assumes it's all text, I'm sure said patch contains more than a few art assets.
     
  7. Fred10k

    Fred10k Great Scott!

    Jeah you mean ß. It is a "sharp s". German sucks. Its my native, but english is by way the most advanced language in the meaning of "more information in less words/letters". I do speak norwegian and polish as well. All languages are interresting in some way. But still I'd go for english all the way. ^^



    //Edit:
    Das Haus - the house
    Der Hase - the rabbit
    Die Kuh - the cow

    Don't ask me why der/die/das. ^^ I know which one I have to use with which word by, but I dont know why those are used, there is no special rule.
     
  8. Supernorn

    Supernorn Starbound Artist and Parallax Pixel Pusher Chucklefish

    I liked the old font, but it didn't support many characters beyond the bare essentials, this new one is custom made and will support a lot more. It also has the benefit of being a lot more legible in-game. Good change!
     
  9. Silver200x

    Silver200x Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Nice! keep it up, to anyone saying wasted time, get over it... its done so its not wasted time!! lol..
     
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  10. Kawa

    Kawa Tiy's Beard

    But I'd already confirmed that the latest Nightly has no asset changes.
     
  11. BebopCola

    BebopCola Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Any thought being given to a ship upgrade down the road wherein we might add some basic customization to the appearance of our SAIL, or will that likely to be left to modders?

    As a simple example: I might set my SAIL to appear "female," another player might choose "male," and another might leave it as default.
     
  12. Kawa

    Kawa Tiy's Beard

    Totes a mod thing.
     
  13. Xylia

    Xylia Tiy's Beard

    I like the new font.

    The old one, well. I know it is a pixelly game, but the font doesn't have to be pixelly as well!

    I like the smoothness and how easy it is to read compared to the old font.
     
  14. Kawa

    Kawa Tiy's Beard

    Fun fact: I've tried using Fixedsys Excelsior and Unifont in SB before.

    ...Certain capital letters disappeared. I'm not sure if this also happened on the Flathead font I linked earlier.

    But I think it's obvious that it won't happen for this new font. And maybe, just maybe, whatever caused it in the first place is gone now.
     
  15. roadrashh

    roadrashh Void-Bound Voyager

    I think that's a fairly common misconception.
     
  16. M_Sipher

    M_Sipher Oxygen Tank

    Yeah, considering how much the pop-up windows didn't adhere to the size of the "pixels" on-screen, and how gawdang smooooooooth stuff like the lighting effects were, I'll take this smoother, more legible font anyday.

    I don't mind a mix.
     
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  17. SivCorp

    SivCorp Parsec Taste Tester

    I think more things in game should go this route... smother, crisper, cleaner is better!
     
  18. roadrashh

    roadrashh Void-Bound Voyager

    Wow, uh, I waited nearly a whole week just to be updated about the change in typeface? Is that the only major change to the game? If so, cool, I suppose. But if not, could the players please be given more important information next time? I'm not saying the change in typeface isn't interesting/important, but I just don't think it's interesting/important enough to warrant its own post.
     
  19. HI-MAX²

    HI-MAX² Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Yeah, I'm curious too. I saw that this question has been asked on the first page and was ignored...

    A little attention to players from other countries would be cool. Just sayin'... :slowpoke:
     
  20. Kawa

    Kawa Tiy's Beard

    "A huge amount more special characters" does not imply these particular ones?
     

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