[Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Diziet Sma wrote:
The Oolite thread on the Pandora Forum has some more info and feedback on this, if you're inclined to look into it. I do know that if you succeeded in coming up with a font that looked good on that display, you'd earn the undying gratitude of quite a lot of Pandora-Oolite fans.. :wink:
I can DEFINTELY second that, if you could "fix" the font issues which could help the Pandora users, we would forever be in your debt :)
It's amazing just how much progress day to day is being made with regards to all avenues of oolite, respect to all that make it so good! :)

The screenshots of the font are so crisp and clean, and something like that would be amazing for the Pandora :) that is, respecting the effort that edge is and has already put in to making it happen...
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Going by the current state of affairs in the Pandora forum's Oolite: Legible font project thread, a proper solution will probably require a collaborative effort between edgepixel, ptitSeb, and the Oolite devs.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Probably. In the meantime, if the small font on the Pandora is a problem, given that the game has to be patched a little for the Pandora anyway, why not make the ANA text size a bit bigger?

Here's a little patch against current 1.80 which ups the font size to size 12 from size 8. Looks okay on my screen - still just about readable with the default Helvetica font at only 400 pixels wide. There's a bit more overlap between names on particular routes, but it's not too bad.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Cool.. I've cross-posted it to the Pandora forum so that ptitSeb will see it.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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I really like this font, but with the Market Observer, the recorded Min - Ave - Max prices gets shunted over to overlap with the product names. Can this be fixed?
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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edgepixel, could I trouble you to send me personally the background pics in a zip?
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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edgepixel, I second that request for a zip of the images, or even links to where the images are. I've found a few myself, but I can't track down all of them.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Thirded. Those are effin sweet and I'd love to update 1.8 with it.

I'll also update my font to Dangerous: Square if the alignment problem with Market Observer.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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mossfoot wrote:
Thirded. Those are effin sweet and I'd love to update 1.8 with it.

I'll also update my font to Dangerous: Square if the alignment problem with Market Observer.
The problem is in the Market Observer's end. I'll see if I can do something about it.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Market Observer (2.3) should now work with this oxp. Numbers in Dangerous Square font seem to be wider than the default fonts, so the market screen is noticeably more crowded.
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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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Woot! Looking forward to a new HUD and new font now :D (and with luck a new ship in my hardcore game!)

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Re: [Release] Font: Dangerous: Square v1.1

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If you use Dangerous Square, you might be interested in this tweak to fix the column layout in the contract screens: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... 50#p240262
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