What's your font choice: Easy to read or stylized?

[carllyngholm]

Just wondering what people are choosing as their font choice. Stylized is the default and it's been overall good, but I just got the the monastery, and the highly (Gothic?) font for all the monks I find to be borderline unreadable. I can do it, it just makes my eyes hurt. I actually think it was starting to give me a headache. Haven't tried the easy to read choice yet, easier on the eyes, but worried that it might cause the game to lose some of it's "flavor". So, what font choice do you use?

[Bauble]

I actually wish there was a toggle for each type of font, instead of an all or nothing option.

[Toddziak]

I went straight for "easy to read". Legibility is more important to me than style, especially in a game that relies on you reading a lot.

[Brian Sirith]

I put easy to read and the other option that show education level. Though I like the idea, I find the fonts tiring after a while but I didn’t want to miss any content.

They could probably show education level by the manner of speech instead? Like grammar, syntax, expressions used? Also the way people address each other could add to that. Peasants would address a rich and educated guy as ‘my Lord’ or something. Also medieval style cursing could convey class.

[Redglyph]

I like the stylized font, even with the medial 's'.

Some fonts are harder to read at first, but it's just the matter of reading a few dialogues - though I suppose it depends on the player's affinity.

I like the suggestion above about the education level in the speech. I think I noted some difference between the NPCs in the game, but I'm not far yet.

[SpacePoon]

Have no problem reading stylized. Definitely would feel less immersive without

[Darth_Malice]

go team stylized. absolutely love the idea. especially when font changes after Adnreas learns about character background.

[bshock]

Stylized. I have no issue reading them.

[agris]

I imagine those that learned cursive in primary school and were used to reading/writing it through their youth will find the stylized much easier to read than those raised with printing as their only practiced handwriting style and reading/writing text through electronic devices.

stylized is not hard to read for me and is definitely more immersive, I love that it's an option. Including ligature and medieval 's'.

[Redglyph]

Originally posted by agris:

I imagine those that learned cursive in primary school and were used to reading/writing it through their youth will find the stylized much easier to read than those raised with printing as their only practiced handwriting style and reading/writing text through electronic devices.

stylized is not hard to read for me and is definitely more immersive, I love that it's an option. Including ligature and medieval 's'.

Most probably.
And correcting exam copies at uni must help a lot too. 😉

[DerOger]

stylized, but I'm also used to it

[Pfredd]

I am playing on a Steam Deck, and tried the fancy font, but ended up restarting and selecting the plain font because the fancy font was too difficult for my old eyes to read on the small screen,

[Finarfin]

Stylized writing.
If only because the revelation towards the end of the game makes it MUCH better that Sister Amalie is the one who wrote the notes and her text bubbles suddenly becomes this beautiful script and is displayed in purple.

[manwhat]

Stylized font, ligatures on, and turn on the long S. it's the true way.

[Psyringe]

Stylized font for me.

When I was little, I literally read every single book that I could get my hands on. So while I never had any formal training with regard to gothic font, it doesn't give me any trouble, as I've read a few dozen books in that font from the bookshelf of my maternal grandparents. I also remember my paternal grandparents (who were born in 1899 resp. 1900) writing me grocery lists in Sütterlin handwriting[en.wikipedia.org], so any variants of Kurrent aren't really a problem either.

I can see the fonts being problematic for readers who have never read them before, though. But even then it shouldn't take long to learn to read them, you can guess most words correctly even if there's a letter inside that you cannot read. The question is whether you want to do this in the context of a game. Some players may see it as good training, others as an annoyance.

Originally posted by Gordon21:

If only because the revelation towards the end of the game makes it MUCH better that Sister Amalie is the one who wrote the notes and her text bubbles suddenly becomes this beautiful script and is displayed in purple.

It's definitely a nice aesthetic touch, but would have worked way better if it hadn't been glaringly obvious from the middle of Act I already.

[Taliesin_Merlin]

Stylized for me, with ligatures. I've done reading in the time period, so the different hands feel familiar to me. They did a great job with the different pressings of the typefaces, the consistency or inconsistency in hands, and the formality of the gothic writing.