Hello all I started to create a new font for the FlightGear GUI the get better readability and to refresh the 'look' of the GUI. My work is based on Allerta (OFL) and I hope it could do a good job. My new FG-fonts are avaiable in .ttf and txf and are almost ready for use within FlightGear (of course some of the menus needs some minor changes).
During my changes I was looking to the "Font" directory and found a lot of fonts I think nobody needs in the base package? So I am also doing some changes to this directory. I do not know who is the maintainer of this directory (sorry I did not ask in the list before). The new gui.txf could replace Helvetica.txf. 'gui.txf' is a 512x512 texture file and has more characters than current Helvetica.txf. Also some special characters like arrows etc. Numbers are monospaced and the '0' (Zero) has a 'slash' (to do a better job i.e. for waypoints like 'KLO08' or in callsigns). gui.txf or a 'clone' can also be used for signage because it should contain all the characters used in Textures.high/Signs. For my font tests I changed my private data/Font directory and data/gui/styles/antrax.xml of the base package, and also preferences.xml (for changes in the HUD). With 'classic' colors: http://www.sablonier.ch/flightgear/guifont/guifont_10.png Or as 'variant', if someone wants to change the colors: http://www.sablonier.ch/flightgear/guifont/guifont_9.png The new 'Font' directory is avaibale here: git clone git://gitorious.org/fgguifont/fgguifont.git And here is a changed gui/styles/anthrax.xml http://www.sablonier.ch/flightgear/guifont/antrax.xml But first - what do you think about this new font? Should I go further or do you prefere the old pixel fonts for the GUI? What do you think about readability and this new look? Thanks- Yves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
