A Square Font for Vault Design


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Post Monday, 12th February 2018, 23:48

A Square Font for Vault Design

I have made a made a monospaced font where every glyph is square and centered horizontally for creating vault .des files in a text editor.

Here are two samples, first with Consolas, a monospaced font where glyphs are taller than they are wide.
VaultConsolas.png
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And here with my new font.
VaultSophistryRoguelike.png
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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.
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Post Tuesday, 13th February 2018, 18:13

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

That's much more readable, I feel like my eyes kinda glaze over looking at these normally.

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Post Wednesday, 14th February 2018, 05:20

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

Even though I'm a console-only player, I will say that the person who creates a web-based GUI vault editor which uses tiles tiles and requires no knowledge of .des formatting will go down in crawl history as a legend.

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Post Wednesday, 14th February 2018, 07:31

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

Rast wrote:Even though I'm a console-only player, I will say that the person who creates a web-based GUI vault editor which uses tiles tiles and requires no knowledge of .des formatting will go down in crawl history as a legend.
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21723
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Post Wednesday, 14th February 2018, 13:16

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

That doesn't seem to be the correct link.
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Post Wednesday, 14th February 2018, 20:47

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

whoops, fixed

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Post Wednesday, 14th February 2018, 21:14

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

I appreciate that link. I'd found a Java implementation of that, or something similar, via Google or maybe documentation, but I couldn't get it to work.
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Post Monday, 19th February 2018, 18:43

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

duvessa wrote:
Rast wrote:Even though I'm a console-only player, I will say that the person who creates a web-based GUI vault editor which uses tiles tiles and requires no knowledge of .des formatting will go down in crawl history as a legend.
https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21723


I suppose the next step is to put it online and allow members of the community to save vaults and rate each other's vaults.

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Post Wednesday, 21st February 2018, 00:55

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

Rast wrote:I suppose the next step is to put it online and allow members of the community to save vaults and rate each other's vaults.

The options to do this will be called "upvault" and "downvault", right?

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Post Wednesday, 21st February 2018, 07:05

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

give gold pieces to exemplary vaults to help pay for our server costs

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Post Wednesday, 20th June 2018, 15:56

Re: A Square Font for Vault Design

Hey, thank you for this font! Is it bitmap font or a scalable one?
You may also be interested in alternatives I describe here: https://redd.it/8sgk4r
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