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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:08:00 -
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Not.
Looking at the login screen shows that nothing changed.
Thanks a lot for doing nothing to improve the situation at the font front.
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Jim Raynor
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:15:00 -
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I really liked the old "wide" font option, it was fairly readable and okay for me, the new "wide" is a disaster. 
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Clytamnestra
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:15:00 -
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Well, if you hit "connect" your client will be updated and you'll notice the font has changed.
I, for one, love that I can see decimal points again.
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ALUN
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:17:00 -
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nothing wrong with the font tbh, the old font was nice but just needed tweeking, which is what ccp have done.
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Ithildin
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:28:00 -
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New font isn't good either, the normal one is difficult to read on the laptop (that I use for my alt) due to being too tight and the expanded font is difficult to read because it's too wide (on casual reading I loose track of some words because the space between letters are too wide). When will we be allowed to choose our own?
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Karn Caranthyr
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:28:00 -
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The new font is horrible, its completely screwed over people who actually liked the old font (true it had to be used on wide setting to be okay)
im straining my eyes already trying to read anything in any setting on the fonts. wide is too wide, normal is to0 thin.
There needs to be an option for what you want to use, let people actually use their own one of choice or whatever.
Im hoping im not the only one with these problems, but im gonna stop whining
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Macel
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Posted - 2006.01.10 13:41:00 -
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I preferred the previous font... That said, my only beef with the current one is that if you type a 2 followed by a . (for example, 2.00 isk), there is no space between the 2 and the . .. so 2.00 looks like 200. When I first logged on after hte patch to check a buy order I had put for nocxium at something like 272.99 isk, I thought I had made a typo and was buying it at 27,299 isk!
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Willo Vasquez
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:03:00 -
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I think it's improved. Use 12 point and wide, and it's a lot better than pre patch.
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Butter Dog
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:05:00 -
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Its just a font. Everyone is going to have individual preferences regarding it, in the same way everyone uses a different font in emails/Word.
Some will like it. Others won't. And that is about as far as this discussion is ever likely to progress.
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Apocalypse Solar
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:09:00 -
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I have no problem with the new font.
Looks great, and is easily readable which is what counts.
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Obituary
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:16:00 -
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I never had (or have) any problems with font or font size.
Most of the time problems like that come from using a TFT screen (laptop?) and not setting the game in the setting that TFT requires. Simply because you didn't know you had to or because your comp can't handle the (probably) recommended 1280x1024 resolution.
The other option is people using to high a resolution on their normal tubes, making it look uber but needing a magnifying glass to be able to read stuff.
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Joost Hyperion
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Obituary
I never had (or have) any problems with font or font size.
Most of the time problems like that come from using a TFT screen (laptop?) and not setting the game in the setting that TFT requires. Simply because you didn't know you had to or because your comp can't handle the (probably) recommended 1280x1024 resolution.
The other option is people using to high a resolution on their normal tubes, making it look uber but needing a magnifying glass to be able to read stuff.
I'm playing on a 19" CRT at 1280x1024.
With the largest font setting the letters are too narrow, the normal font setting is too small (but the width is good) and the small setting is insane.
Why can't the letter width at the largest font setting be like the normal font setting.
Also, the expanded width option makes the text completely unreadable (way too wide).
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JP Beauregard
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:27:00 -
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I'll avoid a crosspost with a reference but would suggest people start adding screenshot links to their posts (send your screenshot to eve-files.com for a link) so we can actually gauge poster sanity and veracity...
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Winterblink
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:28:00 -
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Good lord.
Patch the game again. Include every single font the game has ever had for chat and display for the last three years, and allow people to pick the one they want to use. Might cut back on the number of threads in the General forum by oh say 10%?
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schurem
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:28:00 -
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the new font is AWE-freakin'-SOME!!!!
A million zillion thanks to CCP for ending the headaches 
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Coconut Joe
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:29:00 -
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Originally by: Karn Caranthyr
The new font is horrible, its completely screwed over people who actually liked the old font (true it had to be used on wide setting to be okay)
im straining my eyes already trying to read anything in any setting on the fonts. wide is too wide, normal is to0 thin.
There needs to be an option for what you want to use, let people actually use their own one of choice or whatever.
Im hoping im not the only one with these problems, but im gonna stop whining
haha, you got got screwed by a font
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Obituary
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:30:00 -
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yes OFCOURSE it's too narrow!!!!
1280x1024 is NOT a natural resolution for a tube monitor... it does NOT adhere to the normal 4-3 ratio. for a tube you should use 1280x960.
for a TFT you should use 1280x1024, they're not in normal 4-3 ratio.
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:51:00 -
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Edited by: Alaris on 10/01/2006 14:52:01
Originally by: Obituary
Edited by: Obituary on 10/01/2006 14:41:55
yes OFCOURSE it's too narrow!!!!
1280x1024 is NOT a natural resolution for a tube monitor... it does NOT adhere to the normal 4-3 ratio. for a tube you should use 1280x960.
for a TFT you should use 1280x1024, they're not in normal 4-3 ratio.
Also, I use a 22 inch, I use 1280x960.... 19inch or lower should (imo) use 1024x768
TFT's are either 4:3 or 16:9. Its just a fluke they chose a 5:4 resolution on them. I personally have no trouble with 1280x1024. 1024x768 on a 19" or lower? Whats the point in having a monitor with increased screen space and resolution if your not going to use it? Thats generally the reason why you move to a bigger monitor... 1024x768 would just look big and blocky.
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 14:53:00 -
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Originally by: JP Beauregard
I'll avoid a crosspost with a reference but would suggest people start adding screenshot links to their posts (send your screenshot to eve-files.com for a link) so we can actually gauge poster sanity and veracity...
That never works... you can't take a screenshot of how it looks like on a specific person's monitor.. because your only getting how your videocard is rendering the game, not how the monitor is actually displaying it.
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Cypherous
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:15:00 -
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Originally by: Alaris
Originally by: JP Beauregard
I'll avoid a crosspost with a reference but would suggest people start adding screenshot links to their posts (send your screenshot to eve-files.com for a link) so we can actually gauge poster sanity and veracity...
That never works... you can't take a screenshot of how it looks like on a specific person's monitor.. because your only getting how your videocard is rendering the game, not how the monitor is actually displaying it.
Ok hate to be a spoil sport but if like me you run it in windowed mode you can actually, just take a screenshot of the desktop and voila.
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Eewec Ourbyni
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:20:00 -
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Just a point of note, but change to wide, close the option menu, open it back up and all the text displays pretty much correctly, even the tabs... except one text entry box which mis-aligns...
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:21:00 -
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Edited by: Alaris on 10/01/2006 15:21:04
Originally by: Cypherous
Originally by: Alaris
Originally by: JP Beauregard
I'll avoid a crosspost with a reference but would suggest people start adding screenshot links to their posts (send your screenshot to eve-files.com for a link) so we can actually gauge poster sanity and veracity...
That never works... you can't take a screenshot of how it looks like on a specific person's monitor.. because your only getting how your videocard is rendering the game, not how the monitor is actually displaying it.
Ok hate to be a spoil sport but if like me you run it in windowed mode you can actually, just take a screenshot of the desktop and voila.
That doesn't show how its shown on your monitor tho. Only how your videocard is rendering it.
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Archa
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:24:00 -
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i actually like the new font
i can read the difference now between an 8 and a 9
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ErrorS
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:33:00 -
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Edited by: ErrorS on 10/01/2006 15:33:58
nevermind, someone already beat me to it.
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Uncle Angus
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:37:00 -
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I like the font this forum uses... even the small quoted text is very readable. I've not heard of any complaints about it, either. Hmmm...
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JP Beauregard
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:43:00 -
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Originally by: Alaris
Originally by: JP Beauregard
I'll avoid a crosspost with a reference but would suggest people start adding screenshot links to their posts (send your screenshot to eve-files.com for a link) so we can actually gauge poster sanity and veracity...
That never works... you can't take a screenshot of how it looks like on a specific person's monitor.. because your only getting how your videocard is rendering the game, not how the monitor is actually displaying it.
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SinBin
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:51:00 -
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Edited by: SinBin on 10/01/2006 15:53:41
I almost trashed 2x Butectic cap's the other day since I didnt know what they was.
I play far from my screen & with this new font I have to get up every time I use the market & push my face into the screen, its not good at all but does look crisp just some letter mix together bad, & & 6 just look the same.
21in crt @ 1024x768
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:55:00 -
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Originally by: JP Beauregard
Originally by: Alaris
Originally by: JP Beauregard
I'll avoid a crosspost with a reference but would suggest people start adding screenshot links to their posts (send your screenshot to eve-files.com for a link) so we can actually gauge poster sanity and veracity...
That never works... you can't take a screenshot of how it looks like on a specific person's monitor.. because your only getting how your videocard is rendering the game, not how the monitor is actually displaying it.
I'm not concerned with how a monitor displays a video signal. My concern is with font rendering. The screenshot looks just as bad on other monitors. Visual evidence of the signal is somewhat difficult to come by if you don't display it...
It SHOULD render the same on everyone's machine, baring some weird videocard driver issues. I personally think its difficult to read based on the font choice and what they've done with it, not on anything to do with errors in rendering it.
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Asphyxia Mortella
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:59:00 -
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complain complain complain
jees ccp fix a problome that everyone complained about and now people complain again , if you sepnt all the energy u spend complaining on actually playing youd all be far better gamers :)
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Kurren
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:05:00 -
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The new font is supposed to be more "multi-language" supportive. That's why it's been introduced. More than Americans and English play this game. Romanians, Chinese, Siberian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, Korean, Canadian =P... they all need to be able to read too. That's why this font is here. It's capable of more languages than the old one was.
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Baleine4Nerver
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:06:00 -
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Its fine for me, no issues reading it at all,
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Jennai
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:08:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren
It's capable of more languages than the old one was.
why make everyone suffer with this horrible font when most of them don't care if the funny characters show up as boxes or not? it should have been a user-selectable option to use this crap unicode font or the old one.
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Joost Hyperion
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:09:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren
The new font is supposed to be more "multi-language" supportive. That's why it's been introduced. More than Americans and English play this game. Romanians, Chinese, Siberian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, Korean, Canadian =P... they all need to be able to read too. That's why this font is here. It's capable of more languages than the old one was.
I know, but why so small.
Even at the largest setting the size is relatively small.
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Xerxes X
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:11:00 -
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A big improvement, but the & symbol still looks a bit like a 6.
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:12:00 -
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Edited by: Alaris on 10/01/2006 16:13:21
Originally by: Jennai
Originally by: Kurren
It's capable of more languages than the old one was.
why make everyone suffer with this horrible font when most of them don't care if the funny characters show up as boxes or not? it should have been a user-selectable option to use this crap unicode font or the old one.
Thats what I don't get.. why not just give us the option to pick? That would solve all these problems. I personally don't care if I see someone else's language that I can't understand, but I understand other people don't care about my language either. If people want to play in Wingdings, let them. Choice can't be a bad thing.
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griff1972
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:12:00 -
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seems like to me 100% of eve players will never be happy with any font, may be its time to let individual players choose the font they wish to use, perhaps an option in generic where an indvidual can choose a font from a small list perhaps a list made up from previous tried fonts
8 out 10 players would be happy with this lol
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:16:00 -
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Asphyxia:
If they spent the time on reading and following a simple 12 step guide on 'Howto build a easily readably Font' there would have been no complaints.
Screwing up three times in a row isn't really speaking for the dev team's quality department.
Three times: ColdWar, Red Moon Raising and today.
The font rendering engine is a bit better now. The font got worse.
Uneven and tight letter spacing is bad. Uneven word spacing is bad. The letters are pretty amateurish. Decimals and kommata merging with numbers and letters is bad.
Unclear rendering when the window is in windowed mode is bad.
Oh, and I can read the text on the forum here just fine, regardless which browser and OS I use.
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Kurren
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:23:00 -
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Originally by: Alaris
Edited by: Alaris on 10/01/2006 16:13:21
Originally by: Jennai
Originally by: Kurren
It's capable of more languages than the old one was.
why make everyone suffer with this horrible font when most of them don't care if the funny characters show up as boxes or not? it should have been a user-selectable option to use this crap unicode font or the old one.
Thats what I don't get.. why not just give us the option to pick? That would solve all these problems. I personally don't care if I see someone else's language that I can't understand, but I understand other people don't care about my language either. If people want to play in Wingdings, let them. Choice can't be a bad thing.
You probably don't get to pick because of the transfers between fonts. One player would choose one font and say something, then it would have to be read and then written in your font... doesn't seem too bad untill you realize that some systems have a local up up to 300 people all with different fonts. Not to mention, the folks that need a uni-code in order to communicate with folks that speak different languages. Eve has enough trouble with lag as it is. There's no need to throw something else on to the server's metophorical back.
Also, I was able to make my font larger and readable. Maybe there's a bug that won't allow people to change the size of the font, but I did it and the only thing I have a problem with these days is the position of the * in the emotes.
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:25:00 -
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...
OK, RMR font was giving headaches. This patched up font looks OK for now (maybe needs longer hours before I can feel any effect) but the current font doesnt look and feel right. It feels weirdish.
Why cant we have Cold War font back pls?
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:28:00 -
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How about just a few fonts then? Its a given 100% of the people won't be satisified. I liked the pre-cold war one, I got used to the RMR one at wide, and could have lived with that, but this one... I'm not saying I couldn't get used to it, but the HUGE spacing between words in expanded is just ruining any chance of that for me.
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AK Shaman
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:30:00 -
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less readable for me
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:32:00 -
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Edited by: Andrue on 10/01/2006 16:32:25
Originally by: Kurren
Originally by: Alaris
Edited by: Alaris on 10/01/2006 16:13:21
Originally by: Jennai
Originally by: Kurren
It's capable of more languages than the old one was.
why make everyone suffer with this horrible font when most of them don't care if the funny characters show up as boxes or not? it should have been a user-selectable option to use this crap unicode font or the old one.
Thats what I don't get.. why not just give us the option to pick? That would solve all these problems. I personally don't care if I see someone else's language that I can't understand, but I understand other people don't care about my language either. If people want to play in Wingdings, let them. Choice can't be a bad thing.
You probably don't get to pick because of the transfers between fonts. One player would choose one font and say something, then it would have to be read and then written in your font... doesn't seem too bad untill you realize that some systems have a local up up to 300 people all with different fonts.
Sorry but that's rubbish.
The font is only used to render a string on your display. Up until the last moment it's just a bunch of numeric codes and those numeric codes are standarised.
If I send you the message "AAAA" your client is just told to render character number 65 four times. It makes no difference to me or anyone else how your client chooses to render character 65.
With 8 bit characters it was possible for some of the more esoteric codes to be different but even then with the exception of a few weird fonts like Wingdings the standard Roman alphabet codes were fixed.
Since the client is now using Unicode there is no dissagreement at all - that's precisely why Unicode was invented. The Roman alphabet letter 'A' has a unique code that everyone agrees on. Even Wingdings has its own unique code. IIRC Even Egyptian hieroglyphics have been given codes.
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Jennai
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:32:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren
Also, I was able to make my font larger and readable. Maybe there's a bug that won't allow people to change the size of the font, but I did it and the only thing I have a problem with these days is the position of the * in the emotes.
the previous font was somewhat tolerable in wide, but the new font on expanded is ridiculously large.
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Joshua Foiritain
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Posted - 2006.01.10 16:39:00 -
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Oh my god.
What is this, the 4th ******* font downgrade?
Give us an option to pick betweenm the old pre-multi language font and the current whatever font. I dont need to to see russian and chinese characters anyway, whether i see #@$#@$@%#%TSDRDGF@##!# or some language i dont speak, the end result is the same....
How can such a simple thing be so hard...
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Dhannik
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Posted - 2006.01.10 17:49:00 -
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I keep getting the feeling that the fonts keep getting less and less professional looking, especially things like "Warp Drive Active" or such. This new font looks fine on things like "Current location" box while docked, but really no where else.
I'm voting for Cold War font.
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Maestro Ulv
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Posted - 2006.01.10 17:53:00 -
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I liked the original RMR font myself, though it was impossible to tell a nought from a O. Nice work CCP. Kept the classic 80's scfi feel and made it fully readable.
http://phaze9.moonmanstudio.com/
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Zag Stormchild
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Posted - 2006.01.10 17:56:00 -
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Font seems ok, it's not that bad.. why are you all complaining ? Are you all blind or something or playing on a PSP screen ?
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Alaris
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:09:00 -
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Edited by: Alaris on 10/01/2006 18:09:32
Yes, we're all blind, and its that bad that we can feel it on our braille keypads.
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:18:00 -
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The new font is better than the old one to my eyes. That doesn't make it good but it's not as bad. Unfortunately I'm still seeing descenders clipped on single line text like Wallet/transactions.
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Brutor Shaun
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:18:00 -
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Me no like....
Bring back the Cold war font. Or make the font user definable from the [esc] menu.
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Slink Grinsdikild
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:19:00 -
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This one is a lot better than the Red Moon squint-a-thon of the last few weeks, but I still miss the Cold War font. Note that I don't really care what a font looks like, aslong as its readable.
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Donna Darko
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:22:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren
You probably don't get to pick because of the transfers between fonts. One player would choose one font and say something, then it would have to be read and then written in your font... doesn't seem too bad untill you realize that some systems have a local up up to 300 people all with different fonts. [...] Eve has enough trouble with lag as it is. There's no need to throw something else on to the server's metophorical back.
Are you stupid?
If we're chatting on IRC (which seems to be the basis for this chat system), only the TEXT gets to the server and relayed to other people. Not the font size/type, etc.
What is being asked (and I want that too) is the ability to chose what font to display on OUR COMPUTERS, not yours.
I work daily with all the possible languages, and have all the needed fonts on all my computers - that didn't mean I had to stick with an ugly-ass font to display Japanese, or Korean, or what-not. The "look-ma'-i-learned-to-create-fonts" font they use in EVE is not the only Unicode-compliant font.
I for one have asked for a change in font since they started sporting this one, it's been over 2 months since my first request. I have developped huge headaches that went as far as to cause me to take the day off from work (and that's for playing 1-3 or maybe 4 hours a day, not all of them in one go, not every day).
I'm doing what any normal person would do: if something hurts you, I stop doing it. I'm out of here; no game, no matter how cool or entertaining will keep me playing when it damages my eyes.
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:31:00 -
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They've seriously ****** things up even worse this time. Since I HAVE NO FRIKKING OPTION TO CHANGE IT, im stuck using a font that is poorly designed, and damned outright ugly. I wish they had just left it alone. CCP, EVE is going down the crapper...
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:32:00 -
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i've never had a problem with the fonts...
but i wish they wouldn't keep changing them.
did people with bad eyesight have troubles with the CWE font?
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:40:00 -
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Edited by: Tachy on 10/01/2006 18:42:30
Yes, people had problems with the CWE font.
There was a massive outcry and ccp went back to the preCWE font.
With RMR they reintroduced it.
There was a massive outcry again.
Then ccp patched *cough* the client a bit.
Guess wich font we still have ...
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Oh, and it got nothing to do with bad eyesight.
It is a badly designed font on a suboptimal font rendering engine that causes problems under certain constellations of monitors, screen resolution and other settings.
Like settings that work on most or all other programs just fine.
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Jennai
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:42:00 -
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Originally by: Tachy
Yes, people had problems with the CWE font.
There was a massive outcry and ccp went back to the preCWE font.
With RMR they reintroduced it.
There was a massive outcry again.
RMR font is different from cold war font.
both of them suck but the cold war font was better than the current one.
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:44:00 -
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Tachy dude i dunno what your smokin, but the RMR font has never been used before, NEVER!
And eyesight problems with EXODUS font? C'mon it was sure better than this joke we have atm.
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.01.10 18:57:00 -
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Exodus was used until the Cold War Edition brought us this wonderful font. And it was reintroduced about a week later.
It wasn't a unicode font.
So we got the font back with RMR, with really tiny changes.
With the new patch to RMR, they changed mostly the font rendering engine and some numbers a bit.
But what would be the problem with merging the easily readable Exodus font with the horrible unicode one? Did the rendering engine stop supporting the old truetype way?
You could do a test and extract the different fonts for yourself and use them in other programs. You can find the old fonts in the old patches.
The current font stinks in other programs too, but it is displayed better.
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BlackHole Bob
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:01:00 -
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I wear glass's and this new font is as bad if not worse then the last....
regardless of what some say...for me PERSONALLY, it sucks the big wind
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:05:00 -
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the old EXODUS fonts wernt truetype, they were bitmap fonts stored at
res: /res/ui/textures/fonts/
and called fontmap_01.dds fontmap_02.dds ect..
which are direct draw surface textures, as if they couldn't have just expanded upon these.. ahwell
I even got one of my artists to recreate the EXODUS font and we tried to embed it into the current evesansmm.pfb font file, but from looking at it, it looks as if CCP has done some of their own wee lovlys inside it. When i replicated these lovelys and embedded them in with the new font i had problems with the client. So no, that dont work unfortuantly.
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Khaldorn Murino
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:07:00 -
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Its true, i just logged in. Its worse...
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:21:00 -
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@Gothikia:
Good to see others encountered the same problems as I did. (Or not ...)
I tried to transfer the Exodus font into the RMR one without luck too.
It just doesn't fly.
It is a bit strange that I can use the RMR font in other programs just fine, but using other fonts in EVE doesn't work. 
30 minutes in help and I get a headache now. in Exodus I had no problems.
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:30:00 -
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Originally by: Tachy
@Gothikia:
Good to see others encountered the same problems as I did. (Or not ...)
I tried to transfer the Exodus font into the RMR one without luck too.
It just doesn't fly.
It is a bit strange that I can use the RMR font in other programs just fine, but using other fonts in EVE doesn't work.
30 minutes in help and I get a headache now. in Exodus I had no problems.
reason being is that they are two totally different font rendering technologies.
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JirAnarion Atriedes
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:41:00 -
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I really like the new one myself. It's cleaner and you can see decimals again. It doesn't scrunch together unfortunately like the previous one.
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Jennai
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:44:00 -
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Originally by: JirAnarion Atriedes
I really like the new one myself. It's cleaner and you can see decimals again. It doesn't scrunch together unfortunately like the previous one.
try typing .1, it looks almost exactly the same as 1, just like 2. and 2 before. this is not an improvement. also they didn't do anything about 6/G/& or 8/B or 0/O/D or any of those.
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Maestro Ulv
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Posted - 2006.01.10 19:46:00 -
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bugger, was wrong, Noughts and O still look the same when in caps..
http://phaze9.moonmanstudio.com/
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Damon Silversmith
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Posted - 2006.01.10 20:28:00 -
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Personally, I think the font is fine. But people could be given the option to choose a more readable (for them) font size, or even another font, if they so wish. Is that outwith the realms of possibility?
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Uncle Angus
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Posted - 2006.01.10 20:39:00 -
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Here's a screenshot of a collection of the fonts used for (a) system name, (b) items and (c) ammo over the past year and a bit. I like the Cold War ones best, I think (that's the ones from November last year). I'm missing ammo & items from 2004, as I didn't screenshot them at the time.
Font Comparison 2004-2006
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Oylmpia
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Posted - 2006.01.10 20:40:00 -
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http://www.kotiposti.net/ihmemies/eve/font_examples.png
*sigh*
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Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2006.01.10 20:42:00 -
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Originally by: Uncle Angus
Here's a screenshot of a collection of the fonts used for (a) system name, (b) items and (c) ammo over the past year and a bit. I like the Cold War ones best, I think (that's the ones from November last year). I'm missing ammo & items from 2004, as I didn't screenshot them at the time.
Font Comparison 2004-2006
Oh good, I'm really NOT mis-remembering they were better, they REALLY REALLY were.
I do wonder if CCP test on a selection of CRT's as well as LCD's, but the evidence seems to suggest they do NOT.
Warning: above post may contain traces of sarcasm.
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Gonada
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Posted - 2006.01.11 05:00:00 -
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i love the new font, hear me? LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
take that, you font freaks.
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