UI Font change

[blaaargh]

Hello!

Did something change with the game's UI Font? All of a sudden the tracking on everything is off (and the font is different, it's a lighter weight, like Light-extended instead of Bold). It makes the game's text much harder to read, though not impossible.

[roman.oxymoron]

Hi, there was no such a change in the game ... could you show me a screenshot please?

[blaaargh]

Hi sorry for the delay, here's a link to some screenshots showing the different font. https://imgur.com/a/hOueNbG

[Oxymoron Games]

Hi, thanks for the screenshot - if we're not mistaken, this looks like the fallback font Unity uses for example on Android - which OS are you running and wasn't there some recent update?

As Roman mentioned, the game has been using the same font and same engine version for quite a few months and this is the only time we've heard about such issue, so it's hard to recommend the next step - probably worth it to reinstall the game in case some files got corrupted during an update.

[blaaargh]

I'm running MacOS, Catalina, on a new iMac. This is from a fresh install on a new computer. I'll reinstall and let you know if it clears the issue.


Love this game! :)

[blaaargh]

No difference after deleting and reinstalling the game (and workshop stuff). I'm wondering if its a system font I'm somehow missing, and that no longer gets installed on new Macs?

What font is it / should it be?

[roman.oxymoron]

It's a default Arial font we use in the game ... check out if your system has it installed, otherwise it's probably replaced for some other font.

[Panthasaur]

I'm having this issue too, also on macOS Catalina. I've checked and Arial is available as a font on the system.

[QUANWEI HU]

Originally posted by roman.oxymoron:

It's a default Arial font we use in the game ... check out if your system has it installed, otherwise it's probably replaced for some other font.

I have the same problem with the latest MAC OS. I checked my fontbook and all the Arial font is avaliable. I think there must be some font reconization issue resulting game under mac os select a different font.

[LukeWH]

Weird font

Hi. The font when I play has changed - anyone know why this might be? It's very thing and wide from what it normally looks like. Thanks!

[PaplooTheLearned]

I have exactly this problem too. While I do have a font called Ariel installed on my system, the game is rendering fonts like the screenshot above. This translates to many of the information sheets too, and is hard to read.

This seems to be an issue with macOS 10.15 Catalina? I don't remember having this issue the last time I played (which was quite awhile ago, back in 10.14).

[jirka_oxymoron]

Hi, we are still investigating but we have a certain suspicion that the font change may occur due to the Unity version used for Mac builds. In the meantime would you please upload the log file to our forum [projecthospital.forumotion.com] or send us by any other means? It could contain some valuable info because our testing devices showing no signs of a problem.

Log file location:
- Win: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Oxymoron Games\Project Hospital\output_log.txt
- Win: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Project Hospital\ProjectHospital_Data\output_log.txt (older versions, before 1.0.14398)
- Linux: /home/USERNAME/.config/unity3d/Oxymoron Games/Project Hospital/Player.log
- Mac: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Player.log

[jirka_oxymoron]

To be sure, is anybody experiencing this on Mac OSX 14 Mojave or older? We double-checked the game build and we're not aware of any changes on our side compared to previous patches that should affect fonts in any way, so it seems to be linked more to OSX version than the game version.

[jirka_oxymoron]

Hi, we have a workaround while we're trying to investigate further. The issue seems to be resolved locally by copying all versions of the Arial font from the main System/Library/Fonts (for some maybe Supplemental) folder to your user ~/Library/Fonts folder (you can access this with the Command+Shift+L shortcut).

[PaplooTheLearned]

Huzzah! The workaround works. I copied all the Arial fonts from `/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental` into `~/Library/Fonts` and now the fonts are rendered correctly. [2017 iMac / macOS Catalina 10.15.6 / Radeon Pro 580 8 GB]

I will submit a Player.log, if you still think you need it.

Thank you and good luck!

[Panthasaur]

Thanks for the workaround. I copied the 11 Arial variants I had in /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental into ~/Library/Fonts and it works! No more squinting trying to read the game text... such a massive improvement!!!
macOS 10.15.7 / iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019) / Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB