[Font] Vanessa's improved-readability fonts [2013-08-05]
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 16:59I was starting to have trouble reading my screen, so PilzAdam pointed me to this irrlicht font tool:
https://github.com/kahrl/irrtum
With its help, the DejaVu Sans and Sans Mono fonts on my system, and some post-processing in The GIMP, I was able to create this larger, more readable pair of fonts for Minetest, for those users who don't have Freetype enabled:
Download
http://daconcepts.com/vanessa/hobbies/minetest/font_dejavu_sans.png
http://daconcepts.com/vanessa/hobbies/minetest/font_dejavu_sans_mono.png
These are both DejaVu Sans (one monospaced, one not), and are 13 point size at 96dpi.
These will cause a few minor positioning glitches since some of the game's UI graphics are hard-coded to specific sizes/positions, but for the most part it helps greatly, especially if you have bad eyes like me. :-)
Install
Download and copy both PNG files to {minetest_folder}/fonts . If you already have these files, but the names are different, you must either rename them to match what's shown below, or modify the lines below to match your filenames - either way will work. Add these lines to your minetest.conf:
Screenshots
https://github.com/kahrl/irrtum
With its help, the DejaVu Sans and Sans Mono fonts on my system, and some post-processing in The GIMP, I was able to create this larger, more readable pair of fonts for Minetest, for those users who don't have Freetype enabled:
Download
http://daconcepts.com/vanessa/hobbies/minetest/font_dejavu_sans.png
http://daconcepts.com/vanessa/hobbies/minetest/font_dejavu_sans_mono.png
These are both DejaVu Sans (one monospaced, one not), and are 13 point size at 96dpi.
These will cause a few minor positioning glitches since some of the game's UI graphics are hard-coded to specific sizes/positions, but for the most part it helps greatly, especially if you have bad eyes like me. :-)
Install
Download and copy both PNG files to {minetest_folder}/fonts . If you already have these files, but the names are different, you must either rename them to match what's shown below, or modify the lines below to match your filenames - either way will work. Add these lines to your minetest.conf:
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freetype = false
font_path = {full_absolute_path_to_minetest_folder}/fonts/font_dejavu_sans.png
mono_font_path = {full_absolute_path_to_minetest_folder}/fonts/font_dejavu_sans_mono.png
Screenshots