it's good to see all the positive feedback here:)

Nope, you'll only be able to change the size of the context menu, as before.

I'm sure that this question can't be answered by you as it's most likely a different department. However, has there been any discussion to give us more control over what is a larger font on our screen and what isn't?

The questions are asked individually as many of the pilots I fly with have always wished they could increase the font size of the overview without increasing font sizes of other things in the game.

If it's never been discussed,

As someone who wears contacts for Myopia (that's nearsightedness, or not being able to see well in the distance) I can't thank you enough. People who suffer from this will know that their contacts or glasses scale things down, making small text harder to read. It effectively means I have the font currently set to expanded, have have to bump it up twice from the default size to be able to read this. Have to admit, I play EVE on 1920*1200 because I enjoy my internet spaceships in all their splendor, but still. I hope with this font I don't have to tweak every conversation window or channel that I open and be able to just read everything without squinting. The screenshots are promising already.

PS: I agree it would be nice if we could control fonts more individually, and I like the idea of allowing us to choose from a series of fonts or to be able to use our own. Barring that, perhaps leave the old font available for a while and track usage statistics?

I'm suer there has been some hue and cry about a properly scalable font (who has time to read all the responses), and while that would be nice, I think what he has forgotten is the reason why the fonts currently only scale to a certain point, and that is so they can all still fit properly within the UI windows.

While it may be slightly out of the scope of this particular blog, I think in some ways these do go hand in hand.

When playing on an exceptionally large screen, like a hi-def television, the current font becomes unreadable; while it does appear that the new font will help with some of the readability, none of us are getting any younger and I can only cram my nose so close to my screen.

Certain other less fun MMORPGs use a UI Scale that allows all elements of the UI to be increased/decreased in size with a slider, which allows text to still fit within the boxes since the entire UI size has been increased.

Are there any future plans to move towards something like that, since it would definitely be a boon for everyone playing?

I know, this is a font blog, but since CCP Punkturis is everyone's favorite UI programmer, maybe fishing for an answer might work

What I want to know about this, and the other devblog from yesterday, what's the timeline to Sisi and then TQ?

I'm hoping that these are not core updates for the winter expansion, but Incarna 1.2 updates that would include the conclusion of the captains quarters (to get that monkey off your back), due no later than October 2011...

CarbonUI, our new UI engine, supports this. We have it running in a rough state on our development branch. However, there are some issues with some sliders and icons being offset, since their position was encoded in absolute values as opposed to relative values. Nothing we can't fix.

We could possibly release this to TQ shortly as an "experimental feature", allowing you to scale to 125%, 150% and so on. We would get your feedback on it, expose some defects and polish it further and then some patches later take off the experimental feature label. We could also wait, finish it completely and then release it, but that would mean we'd get feedback later and be more late reacting to your feedback.

In any case, this is partially implemented and on the roadmap to be released.

CarbonUI, our new UI engine, supports this. We have it running in a rough state on our development branch. However, there are some issues with some sliders and icons being offset, since their position was encoded in absolute values as opposed to relative values. Nothing we can't fix.

We could possibly release this to TQ shortly as an "experimental feature", allowing you to scale to 125%, 150% and so on. We would get your feedback on it, expose some defects and polish it further and then some patches later take off the experimental feature label. We could also wait, finish it completely and then release it, but that would mean we'd get feedback later and be more late reacting to your feedback.

In any case, this is partially implemented and on the roadmap to be released.

You just became my 5th most favorite CCP employee.

Release early and rough and get complaints or wait until finished and get complaints?

My vote is early and rough as experimental, get mass feedback, and patch it based on real world use.

Well deserved!

Seriously - great job. Much easier to read and I like the font! The font didn't take any time for me to get used to. I especially liked the ESC menu.

The font could be a tad more "spacier" but with that said I have never seen a truly "spacy" font sub Star Trek and that would look stupid. haha

So...with that said....

ANOTHER EPIC WIN FOR TEAM BFF (THE BEST DEV TEAM IN EVE)!

(CAPS because I am shouting : )

I don't agree with that, most of the flak CCP has been getting is related to unfinished and unpolished feature release, this will be another one to add to it, and eventually forgotten when resource allocation changes resulting in a never to be polished feature like many we have right now.

I rather a lot more to endure some downsides of this particular feature right now and have the confidence the work will continue as it set on feature adding milestones instead of not important category of bug fixing which are 2 different 'categories' in a development house, and we know how terrible it get's to pick up a not important bug fix in the long run.

I figure for most instances of text, we could probably do without a 'spacey' font. I think major headers and labels (window names and such) would be fine stylized, but otherwise, something readable is important. I remember one game I played ages ago had a font for stylistic purposes that only really looked good at large sizes (like, say, the EVE logo font), and another font for most of the time that was much easier for readability at most sizes.

I seemed to have side tracked yet another thread.

Punkturis, keep up the great font update work!

Release early and rough and get complaints or wait until finished and get complaints?

My vote is early and rough as experimental, get mass feedback, and patch it based on real world use.