EVE General Discussion

Like to jump on the "I don't like this Font" wagon as well.

Why did it change?

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Go to steam and see the most common screen resolutions.
I see this:
1920 x 1080 23.73%
1680 x 1050 18.08%
1280 x 1024 11.39%

Whether you like the old font or not there exists serious scaling issues here.

I've a 22" monitor set at 1680 x 1050.

At 100% the UI scaling makes the text too large and clearly requires me to make all open windows that bit larger. it all looks cluttered - away from the cleaner lines of the old UI. At 90% the UI scaling makes the text just about right, however the text at the top of the windows and tabs is scaled too small. In typesetting you just don't use too similar sizes for fonts as is the case here. Cardinal rule.

For me - this font thing has half marred starting Crucible for the first time. It just got in the way.

Tl;Dr - The scaling requires work

Apart from that!! Good job on everything er.....apart from- the new mining laser sound (return of) is going result in mental health problems...

I really like the new font, it's certainly a lot more readable than the old

I will complain when I see it for the first time, which is now. Not everyone has time to test a game every patch.

First thing I noticed after the patch was the horrible new font; I had a stack of 66 ships and the "66" was so blurry I could not read it; in fact all stack quantity numbers are mostly illegible. Also on headings when there is number followed by a right bracket, the bracket is much too close to the number. So after spending most of my gametime trying to figure out how to reset back to the old font I come to these forums and discover that there is no way to change back to the old font.

I am entirely confused by those posting that the new font is better and clearer; at first I thought they were clearly being sarcastic but I am starting to think maybe for some the new font is actually better, but for me it is so much worse and so completely illegible in many situations that I am at a loss for words.

Don't get me wrong, I think the old font sucked and needed to be replaced, I just find it astonishing that it was replaced with an even worse font.

Sign me up on the petition to change back to the old font. New font is sooo bad, I am looking at an 8 and the top circle is larger than the bottom one

On a related note is there a way to change the font for the forums? It seems to have the same or similar font as is ingame.

I never used the test server and never read any reference to the font being slated for change so this all came as quite a shock to find that they changed it to something so bad without giving the option to change back.

1600x1200 is my resolution of choice and I use a 19" CRT monitor with a flat aperture grille.

I was so excited with this new patch...but as soon as i logged in...i had to come to the forums looking for a complain thread bout the font...looks like im not alone.

This font is terrible...yeah it can be more readable if your looking at 1 word...but when the chat starts having more than 10 words its a mess...looks like a letter soup! i feel like i playing eve with a patch for a handicap person...also lots of issues trying to fill the space...like names that appear when they log in/off and ammo on the gun icon...and more.

the older might had issues...but this is surely not the solution.

90% scaling makes things like your gun icon's ammo count numbers look like ****.

Yep... Like I said - that is one of the side effects of this.

The root cause is that the default font size was increased making many windows little bigger. Default font should have been same size than the old font keeping old windows intact. Scaling should have been used only to make standard windows together with the standard font bigger.

Anyways... 90% + small font in overview makes the thing usable. You can always hover over stacks to get some clarification about the amounts in them.

"Excellence"

Couple weeks =/= a LONG time.