Tartarus Sorceror
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Joined: Thursday, 31st May 2012, 15:45
A Square Font for Vault Design
Here are two samples, first with Consolas, a monospaced font where glyphs are taller than they are wide.
And here with my new font.
At the cost of wide kerning in the tags and lua section, the map proportions are what tiles players will see. The main difficulty in this project was this kerning. Compared to previous efforts, this is much more legible.
Download the font here: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1491670/sophistry-sans-modular-2-1-1
Alas the font that I cloned at FontStruct.com did not have the extended character sets that would allow console players to use this font for gameplay. I'd look for such a font if I were to do this again, but personally I am a tiles player and only use ASCII to read and write vault files. Anyone who'd like to take on that task, I'll be happy to give advice on using FontStruct. I used just the free version since it did what I wanted to do with it.