Any plans to revisit large size fonts?

[whisper]

I have a 1440p monitor so my fullscreen font size is 24. When I was experimenting with windowed mode a little recently I noticed that some of the size 20 fonts are actually a lot sharper and more detailed than the 24 fonts, because the 24 fonts turn out to be just size 12 fonts nearest neighbor doubled.

Some fonts like proggy and terminus look just fine at 12/24, but the Cog fonts really stood out. They're cramped and almost unreadable at 24 but slick and really attractive at 20.

Any plans to go back and update some of the large size fonts to really take advantage of the pixels available? I'd certainly appreciate the effort, I don't know what percentage of players have big monitors tho.

[Snoopkirby]

you can use 20 size fonts in fullscreen if you change the system.cfg file.

// other/auto:
mapWidth=98
mapHeight=62

you'll get fullscreen maps and logs for 2560x1440 with these two numbers.

[whisper]

Originally posted by Snoopkirby:

you can use 20 size fonts in fullscreen if you change the system.cfg file.

// other/auto:
mapWidth=98
mapHeight=62

you'll get fullscreen maps and logs for 2560x1440 with these two numbers.

Oh that's really cool. I didn't know this option existed, thanks for the helpful tip.

[Kyzrati]

I don't yet have any explicit plans to revisit certain fonts sizes, no, although in the past I've added new fonts from time to time (there are like 100 now xD). People can always suggest fonts that might work at a given size, although yeah for size 24 I generally just used upscaled versions of 12 rather than putting together anything unique, especially since when Cogmind was first introduced and I was doing most of the font work, almost no one was actually using 1440p monitors, heh.

I can add this to the list, but my list of things to do is really really long so I have no idea if that would happen unless/until there's more support for it, or the stars align in some other way like there's a neat font I want to use :P

I can say that the default for that size would not change, but more alternative options could one day become available...

[Kyzrati]

Hm, actually I did just go add this to my notes and found that there is other font work not incredibly far out on the list, precisely because I've noticed people are using larger and larger monitors and we're going to need some more options at the higher end...

[whisper]

Glad to hear it's at least on the radar after you get past some of the core improvements you're trying to do in beta 11.