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Just make sure that the standard eve greeting, o/ , salute , o7 , and cheer, \o/ all still work and look good. Kthanks.

This new font is horrendous. I'm not sure I'll be able to stand playing the game for more than a few minutes at a time if it comes out anything like the devblog screenshots.

Some characters are too small, some too large, some too close together. The game font *needs* to be monospaced and scalable, how hard can that be? There's a multitude fantastic fonts already out there and available, why reinvent the wheel as a square rather than re-use one of the perfectly good ones already out there!

The new font is to sharp, it's hurtin my eyes.
WIll (<- love this font) the old font still be selectable?
It is a bit easier on my eyes..

Although at first I found the new font disgusting and nauseating, I'm pleased to report that after some time my opinion of it stayed exactly the same.

Based on your escape menu screenshots, the font is much HARDER to read.

1. Character height/width ration appears wrong. IE. They look too skinny. While I wouldn't want the characters any wider than the old ones, as I value my horizontal screen real-estate, these characters just look squishy in the horizontal direction.

2. "h" looks like "n".

3. Most depressingly, I feel my eyes straining to read the words in the new font, and then a relative sense of comfort to look back at the old font...


Sorry to mock your hard work, but IMO you're just not there yet.

It's 21 Sept, so I rebuilt my SiSi (Successfully! First time! :) ) to see more examples of the font in action. It looks like I was overly eager and will have a little more waiting before me.

When the test font does arrive I'll be particularly interested in:

• the lowercase "l" ("L") alongside the capital "I" ("i") and numeral "1"
• nullsec system names
• financial accounts, showcasing the strike-through zero
• paragraph text in item descriptions
• chat windows showing standard punctuation and capitalisation, links (still bold and coloured?), someone bellowing in all-caps, and use of the "/me" emote.

You've said you're aware that the text is currently floating too high. Fixing that will make quite a difference to how we perceive the font, I think. At the moment, as well as the discomfort of the unfamiliar, the misalignments make the sample page look rough (not in a good way) and unprofessional, as well as seeming to cut off the top row of pixels in characters like the lower-case "f" which makes that look like an indecisive "t".

I'm keen to see an improved font. I support the use of mixed-case over all-caps for legibility in headings. (Brings another angle to nerfing supercaps.) My first impression is that, while the kerning doesn't seem to be too bad, the verticality of the font is going to take some getting used to. I support Arial Narrow and similar fonts for headings but not really for chunks of meant-to-be-read "text". That would be a fairly radical change at this stage, though.

One thing the example does show up is that it looks like you could do with an EVE writing style guide. It seems you've chosen title case for headings but either you're confused about which casing you're using for list items or different people have different ideas about what EVE considers are proper names, deserving of capitalisation. "Shift"? "Tactical Notifications" but "damage notifications". Sort this as early as possible: it saves a heap of time and fixes later. (And if you actually have a mixed-case mess on your hands that was previously hidden by being automatically all-capsed you have my sympathy.)

when this hits SiSi you should see a better version of the font than displayed in the esc menu screenshot :)

Please add more front' sizes. It is impossible to play on big monitors (32"+) in 1920x1080. Try it and your eyes will be broken! I cant believe that it is so difficult.

Also to improve readability please add option to make all (or some) fronts bolded!

Hope I will be heard and somebody supports me.

The font presented doesn't suit EVE Online. It looks like a generic Windows font. In five minutes on myfonts.com I've found these two nice looking guys: Maza, Digital Sans EF (with a few modifications of noted "o0, G&" problem they could be a lot better choice)

If you'd spent there a little more time, with a smart tags searching, I'm sure you'd find a lot better solution than doing everything yourself in a font that doesn't really look good for a future internet spaceships.

But since you've already presented the new font, in what it seems like an advanced stage of work, I'm not that optimistic that you are going to do anything about that :) But at least I've tried. I guess I'll have to get used to EVE client having a typography of a windows app.