Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-12 Thread HB-GRAL
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > > While not perfect > for that (there are MIL standards for this), it would have to be checked if > an optimized GUI font is a reasonable replacement. > Just to point to some documents if someone wants to study this standards: - MIL-STD-1787B, http://www.hf.faa.gov/docs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-04 Thread HB-GRAL
leee schrieb: > > If anyone can find some high-res pictures of _real_ HUD displays > (and not ones from flight sims, as they're obviously going to be > produced via a raster display) it should be possible to see the > LCD 'dots' (unless they LCD screen uses a ridiculously high > resolution, wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-03 Thread Alan Teeder
" Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font > On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010, HB-GRAL wrote: >> Melchior FRANZ schrieb: >> > * HB-GRAL -- Tuesday 02 March 2010: >> >> Melchior FRANZ schrieb: >> >>> Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-03 Thread leee
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010, HB-GRAL wrote: > Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > > * HB-GRAL -- Tuesday 02 March 2010: > >> Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > >>> Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16). > >>> While not perfect for that (there are MIL standards for > >>> this), > >> > >> Do you mean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread HB-GRAL
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * HB-GRAL -- Tuesday 02 March 2010: >> Melchior FRANZ schrieb: >>> Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16). While not >>> perfect >>> for that (there are MIL standards for this), > >> Do you mean in real HUDs? > > Real HUDs use a MIL standard font.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* HB-GRAL -- Tuesday 02 March 2010: > Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > > Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16). While not > > perfect > > for that (there are MIL standards for this), > Do you mean in real HUDs? Real HUDs use a MIL standard font. Ours use Helvetica. I even tuned

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread HB-GRAL
Erik Hofman schrieb: > HB-GRAL wrote: >> 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? > > I think the new font looks nice and clean. If it where up to me I th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread HB-GRAL
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > > Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16). While not > perfect > for that (there are MIL standards for this), it would have to be checked if > an optimized GUI font is a reasonable replacement. Do you mean in real HUDs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Just for your information ... * HB-GRAL -- Tuesday 02 March 2010: > The new gui.txf could replace Helvetica.txf. Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16). While not perfect for that (there are MIL standards for this), it would have to be checked if an optimized GUI font is a r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread Erik Hofman
HB-GRAL wrote: > 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? I think the new font looks nice and clean. If it where up to me I think it should be included. N

[Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-02 Thread HB-GRAL
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