EVE Search - FONT

Woo Doggy wrote:

Vachir Khan wrote:

CCP t0rfifrans wrote:

Hey all

Obviously there are divided opinions on the new font, it being in front of everyone the whole time and a big part of the overall EVE experience. When designing the new font, there were two major paths which we had to choose between. Make it legible, and improve accessibility or make it sci-fi and futuristic, risking usability for asthetics. We chose to go down the usability path.

Now from what we can see, there are very heated opinions on the topic. We did a little quasi-scientific analysis of the forums chatter. There were 1220 posts on the topic at the time of counting, 960 unique characters posting ( with the top 50 posting 31% of the posts ). We counted 6% objecting the new font, 49% somewhat neutral and 45% writing in a positive manner about it.

Looking at that date, we determine than while many people miss the old font and want the new one printed in books in order to be burned Farenheit 451 style, the majority of those writing on the topic like it and are enjoying the improved usability.

Also, the UI scaling is a very separate feature than the font, it was just lucky that we managed to get them both into Crucible. The font and the scaling had been developed by very different people at separate ends of the studio on very different schedules. Being able to launch both of then in Crucible made us pretty happy in terms of providing increased usability, which is something EVE sorely needs improved and we are committed to work on ad infinitum.

Finally, don't pick on Punkturis for implementing the new font or the UI scaling! She did a great job on both and I think EVE is a better product as a result of it!

Those "6%", as you call them, are probably the PVPers who actually need to make USE of all the info they can while still being somewhat able to see wth they're doing ingame. I'm quite sure some idiot who does nothing but mining in high sec or chains lvl 4s isn't exactly bothered by the changed font and its implications. Have you seen the screenshots of people who PVP, it's a fricking WALL of nothing but UI.

I'm sure some carebears with a 63" screen running at 6666x1337 while not ever getting further than targeting 4 ice roids does fine and will attest to just that. Would one of you CCP people actually be a PVPer (and possibly not have an uberl337 screen) worth his/her salt he'd just need to glance 3 seconds at the new UI to realise that the font (and almost more importantly it's implications) is TERRIBLE.

EXACTLY. It's not the font that's the problem. It's the UI scaling. Horrible for those of us with small screens that were able to have pvp info viewed appropriately with old font, but can no longer do so because of the changes.

Question: Did CCP test this on a 17" inch monitor? My guess is NO.