Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It is hard on people's eyes and people have a hard time distinquishing between characters in eve. PLEASE change the font from calibri, or this sans serif, to Times new roman. You try typing characters in eve, without using whatever hacked client you use to be able to read. People with small monitors need to make the font smaller, so that more can fit on the screen. PLEASE let us be able to read it when it's small.

We're supposivley living in 2833 or something in eve but the romans conquered the western world hundreds of years ago, today, and thats why most american Legal is written in times new roman; it is to help distinquish characters in contracts.

Yeah... CCP is based in Iceland. Romans never really got that far. Only Vikings. Whose origins lay far north of Roman borders. So of course they are going to use a font that is just as infuriating and savage as them.

Type slower maybe?

The font is very nice and much more legible than its predecessor. They specifically designed it with differentiating between characters and legibility as their primary concerns (and probably in that order of importance). If you still cannot read it, perhaps the font is not the problem here.

Please consider getting your eyes checked or getting a larger monitor. EVE should probably not be played on monitors smaller than 10 inches. If neither of these solutions yield results/are acceptable, then consider simply making do with less information on the screen by increasing the font size slightly.

EDIT: I fecking hate Times New Roman and MS Sans Serif is the devil's defecation. Palatino Linotype is superior. That being said, I don't want Palatino Linotype in EVE either. Any sort of fonts like that will simply look out of place compared to what we have now.

I have a 23" monitor, and I play the game at a resolution of 1920x1080. As it is now, I have to increase UI scaling to 125% to stop myself from getting eye strain from looking at the font. This is really unfortunate, because it of course means that all the windows take up quite a bit of space. I'm not familiar with the technical difficulties involved, but I really do hope that someone looks into creating / implementing a properly scalable font at some point.

Serif fonts like Times New Roman work much better in print than on screen. Sans-serif fonts are far better suited to screens. That won't change until screens have print-like resolution and contrast.

I don't know why you have trouble differentiating characters with EVE's font, or this one. It's quite clear.

You can shrink any font to the point of illegibility, but that point comes sooner on screen because of the comparatively poor resolution. Switching fonts is not going to help much (though if it did, something like Lucida would make more sense than TNR).

I know that, but there are a lot of other windows in the game.

It's not really even that I have difficulty differentiating characters. I'm saying I get eye strain and eventually, if I keep playing at < 125% UI scale, a pretty major headache.

I can lower the font size elsewhere (and I do, I like it pretty small) e.g. when browsing the web, or when writing something, without getting eye strain, even after several hours. And I do keep my monitor well away from my head.
Increasing the UI scale completely eliminates the problem, aside from the aforementioned downside of having windows take up tons of space on my screen. If I'm really the only one suffering from this, I suppose it's possible that somehow the font is being rendered wrong, in which case I'm all ears for suggestions on how to fix it.

Times New Roman does not belong in video games. It belongs in newspapers, powerpoint presentations and generally boring media. I'm imagining EVE with TNR as it's font, and honestly? It increases the 'halfassed UI' factor by about 60%.