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Announcements => Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) => Topic started by: Aardappel on October 28, 2013, 05:04:50 AM
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this font may be useful for roguelikes: http://strlen.com/square
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Nice one, actually. But from just looking at the examples on your page, I think the ` sign looks a bit odd …
As always,
Minotauros
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Agreed, that does look nice. I think it'd be rather odd if you had to print large sections of text in it without lowercase letters, but probably for 95% of RL needs it's perfect.
The funny thing is, I think the all-caps looks better in the short sections of text, at least in the Brogue example.
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This is fantastic. Thank you. I've not spent a ton of time on it, but I've looked for good square fonts off and on. I don't make 'text' games as much as I use tiles with text graphics, so this is exactly what I need.
EDIT: To be clear, square fonts are not too hard to find, but a font that makes an effort to fill the space is not as common.
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I have added this font to the next version of NotEye. Is the following attribution okay?
Square is a TTF font intended for roguelike games, by Wouter van Oortmerssen,
under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US )
Downloaded from http://strlen.com/square
Typical roguelikes use 80x25 display, which looks like a narrow strip with a square font. (NotEye could draw something below this strip, though...)
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Thanks for the nice comments everyone!
AgingMinotaur: Yes, it's probably an odd design. There are some other characters that I am not totally happy with, like the 2 and 5 look a bit odd, and the Q might look ugly at high res. Maybe at some point I'll do a second pass. Feel free to mention what other improvements you think are needed, or start hacking on it yourself :)
Z: any attribution is welcome, thanks!
Let me know about games that use it, I can mention it on the page.