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Bytyan

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What font is DF?
« on: January 12, 2012, 11:23:35 pm »
Not exactly a gameplay question, but what the hey. What font does vanilla DF use? I want to make myself a thoughts screen.
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Quietust

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Re: What font is DF?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 11:38:38 pm »
Unless you're using TrueType mode (which has some annoying bugs that can cause the game to crash), Dwarf Fortress doesn't use any actual known font - it uses one of several special tilesets which resemble the traditional text-mode (Codepage 437) font present in most video cards, the exact one depending on what you've configured in data/init/init.txt.
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Re: What font is DF?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 11:39:31 pm »
Not sure, though it reminds me of Fixedsys.

Tilesets use different fonts, by the way. You could just make yourself a Phoebus or a Ironhand style thoughts screen, as they have the font provided (in a png file).
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