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Author Topic: Found a great font for Dwarf Fortress!  (Read 2724 times)

Vndetta

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Found a great font for Dwarf Fortress!
« on: December 16, 2012, 05:26:53 pm »

I saw a few older posts where people searched for alternative TTF fonts to use in Dwarf Fortress but didn't want to necro any of them. I've spent a little time digging around and just found one that so far seems great - it's free, appears (at least to me) a bit larger than the default, isn't forced lower or upper case, and already seems to contain all the in-game quality symbols: MPH 2B Damase .

I haven't done extensive testing with it yet, but wanted to share my find just in case someone could get some use out of it.
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PrivateNomad

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Re: Found a great font for Dwarf Fortress!
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2012, 10:10:18 pm »

There are actual dwarf fortress fonts out there, I have one installed on my comp right now.

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Re: Found a great font for Dwarf Fortress!
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2012, 11:41:34 am »

Are there?  I kinda like the default, but how does one go about changing teh font?
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Re: Found a great font for Dwarf Fortress!
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2012, 02:58:46 pm »

Are there?  I kinda like the default, but how does one go about changing teh font?
For truetype mode you just change the font.ttf file in data/art. If you want to change the non-truetype font then you need to change the picture and then [FONT:put your picture's name here] in the init.txt.
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