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Development => Patches & Projects => Incorporated Patches and Solved Bug Reports => Topic started by: rapidliner on March 13, 2018, 10:12:50 PM

Title: Outline font support
Post by: rapidliner on March 13, 2018, 10:12:50 PM
Can Simutrans implement support outline font?

Now Simutrans is supporting only 12px-sided bitmap font. But high resolution-ization(4K UHDTV, full HD resolution with 5 inch smartphones, etc.) is a dominant trend in these days. In high resolution display environment, 12px-sided bitmap font is too small to read, especially Japanese or Chinese. Most Japanese or Chinese players want larger screen font, for smooth read text in Simutrans.
Title: Re: Outline font support
Post by: Leartin on March 14, 2018, 06:09:09 AM
Unless I missed the technological Singularity, no, Simutrans can't implement anything. ;)

However, developers can, and they are implementing that. It's just that it's a lot of work and has not quite the highest priority, so it will take a while.
(Source: Prissi in a German Thread)
Title: Re: Outline font support
Post by: prissi on March 16, 2018, 02:04:46 PM
Its 50% done. But it will still not look as nice as native outline fonts, since it will only use black and white rendering for the moment.
Title: Re: Outline font support
Post by: makie on March 16, 2018, 06:54:59 PM
Pixel fonts are always looking better, especially at low resolutions.
That's the price to pay for stepless font sizes.
Title: Re: Outline font support
Post by: prissi on February 13, 2020, 02:38:18 PM
Incorporated since at least two releases since 120.4