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Author Topic: What Font Does Dwarf Fortress Use?  (Read 1454 times)

NonverbalShoe

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What Font Does Dwarf Fortress Use?
« on: May 04, 2016, 11:01:29 pm »

Wanted to know if it is usable in google docs or google slides too.
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Re: What Font Does Dwarf Fortress Use?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2016, 11:33:39 pm »

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Re: What Font Does Dwarf Fortress Use?
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2016, 11:39:25 pm »

Dwarf Fortress uses "code page 437" or CP437, though the character set is often, erroneously referred to as "ASCII" (which is a specific set of 128 codes and characters).  Here is a previous post about the topic.

You can download TTF conversions of some matching character sets here:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=1922
« Last Edit: May 04, 2016, 11:46:56 pm by Lightman »
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Re: What Font Does Dwarf Fortress Use?
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2016, 11:40:33 pm »

Also, in a typical application if you don't want to fiddle with fonts, sometimes you'll find something like "FixedSys" or "Console" which is roughly equivalent for most purposes.
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