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[Random_Dragon]

Why do the graphics now look like garbage?

The font, I assume? They switched from unicode as the primary font to terminus, which looks bolder and kinda gives me a vague hint of Comic Sans vibe.

Gotta fix it either config/fonts.json, data/fontdata.json, or in one case moving an entire font file into the font folder. Like three different solutions have all come up on the reddit, and it seems for some people only one of those solutions will work, I still

It's kinda weird and dumb that default font isn't an option in the options menu in-game, but font size and proportion (another thing you can tweak in fontdata.json) is. Especially when they're gonna pick an inherently bolder font as the default, which is...well, I guess it's a case of trading a normal font that might give farsighted people eye fatigue for one that'll give EVERYONE eye fatigue.

[scriver]

Or are you referring to the tileset? Some time ago the tileset that was the basis for most other tileset was shown to contain stolen pictures. Since the guy who assembled it is no longer around to clarify which graphics are made by him and which are taken from a third party they decided to clear the set to be sure. This also means that the many other graphic sets built upon that one had their core removed (or was also removed entirely), if I understand things correctly.

I'm not sure how much that side of the game has recovered since then, as I've only been playing with Erk's under-development tileset which isn't yet packed with the game itself.

[Random_Dragon]

I'm not sure how much that side of the game has recovered since then, as I've only been playing with Erk's under-development tileset which isn't yet packed with the game itself.

They've since added it to the repo, and been working on completing it.

I'd give it a good tinkering with and even toy around with adding sprites via mod_tileset, but DF modding has distracted me.

[Erk]

Fonts are looking weird right now because of a glitch that is messing up which font displays and what is used as a fallback. There's already a fix pr'd. Terminus bold is not and was never intended to be a default font.

(Edit: my bad, apparently certain parties wanted to return to terminus bold, which was the font before unicode support, but were very hastily vetoed by the rest of the dev team.)

[EuchreJack]

I was talking about the tileset.

[Erk]

Ah, the tileset default has been retrodays since a few months back when we found out one of the tiles was pirated (and unsurprisingly, later found out many more were too). The pirated stuff was violating our sharing license and we had to pull it.

If retrodays hurts your eyes though, UltiCa now ships in demo form with the game and looks pretty good. It still has a lot of filler tiles but I'm upgrading it every few days.

[AllOfThem]

> Fonts are looking weird right now because of a glitch that is messing up which font displays and what is used as a fallback. There's already a fix pr'd. Terminus bold is not and was never intended to be a default font

But I don't understand... Randomdragon said it was done on purpose to hurt people, so which one is it? Did they lie??

[Random_Dragon]

> Fonts are looking weird right now because of a glitch that is messing up which font displays and what is used as a fallback. There's already a fix pr'd. Terminus bold is not and was never intended to be a default font

But I don't understand... Randomdragon said it was done on purpose to hurt people, so which one is it? Did they lie??

Do you not comprehend "being a smartass" or something? Even I would only regard "thinking that a bold font looks good as the default" as just poor sense of aesthetics, not anything really malicious.

Now, if they'd picked Comic Sans then I'd say they were doing it to hurt players. XP

[EuchreJack]

> Fonts are looking weird right now because of a glitch that is messing up which font displays and what is used as a fallback. There's already a fix pr'd. Terminus bold is not and was never intended to be a default font

But I don't understand... Randomdragon said it was done on purpose to hurt people, so which one is it? Did they lie??

Do you not comprehend "being a smartass" or something? Even I would only regard "thinking that a bold font looks good as the default" as just poor sense of aesthetics, not anything really malicious.

Now, if they'd picked Comic Sans then I'd say they were doing it to hurt players. XP

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[Erk]

Obviously if we were going to choose a nice graphical font we'd go with papyrus.

[Rince Wind]

I propose Wingdings.

[forsaken1111]

Bold. Italicized wingdings.

With strikethrough and underline.

AND GLOW

✋︎⧫︎🕯︎⬧︎ ♌︎♏︎♋︎◆︎⧫︎♓︎♐︎◆︎●︎✏︎

[Rince Wind]

It's beautiful!

[Robsoie]

without joking, the glowing fonts would work well with some specific monster or radiation stuff

[Random_Dragon]

Okay yes, Satan. I would love to see the kinda of trauma making the font Papyrus would inflict on players.