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Use a monospace font as the default font #1005

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slime73 opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 6 comments
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Use a monospace font as the default font #1005

slime73 opened this issue Feb 25, 2015 · 6 comments
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slime73 commented Feb 25, 2015

Original report by Minh Ngo (Bitbucket: mngo, GitHub: mngo).


Sometimes you just want to make a quick prototype with the default font, and having a default font that can be easily aligned for ascii stuff is nice.

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slime73 commented Mar 5, 2015

Original comment by Stevie Hryciw (Bitbucket: hryx, GitHub: hryx).


I'm inclined to support this, but purely out of taste. I don't know if it'd be a justified change.

It might make errors on the blue crash screen slightly easier to read (wider, though).

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slime73 commented Mar 5, 2015

Original comment by Alex Szpakowski (Bitbucket: slime73, GitHub: slime73).


Monospace fonts generally don't make regular text easier to read for us humans.

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slime73 commented Mar 5, 2015

Original comment by Stevie Hryciw (Bitbucket: hryx, GitHub: hryx).


Poor humans ;_;

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slime73 commented Jun 13, 2015

Original comment by Arkadiusz Stefański (Bitbucket: Llamageddon, GitHub: Llamageddon).


I think that a more useful solution would be to include some prepackaged fonts, a monospace one being first to come to mind, that the users can use without having to get any font files or using love.graphics.newFont

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slime73 commented Jun 21, 2015

Original comment by David Serrano (Bitbucket: Bobbyjones, GitHub: Bobbyjones).


Prepackaged fonts would be cool. Maybe make a thread on the forums for five small fonts to be included by default? Maybe one with support for commonly used emoticons.

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slime73 commented Nov 25, 2015

Original comment by Alex Szpakowski (Bitbucket: slime73, GitHub: slime73).


Closing in favour of #1080.

Including several default fonts might make sense for #890, but otherwise you'd be including hundreds of KB (or maybe even several MB) of extra data with every copy of LÖVE for no reason.

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