Font changes?

Decc · 11-10-2023, 03:42 PM

The new UI is very exciting, ready to put another few hundred hours into FHM this year. I was hoping there could be a way to change which font the game uses for most of it's text (right now it seems to be Georama) as I find it a little hard to read and strenuous on the darker background after a while. I wouldn't mind getting a little technical and into the weeds to be able to change this (and maybe text colour too), as it'll make playing the game for a long time and in the dark a little easier on the eyes.

JeffR · 11-11-2023, 01:30 AM

It's not easily modified; a lot of the places you'd need to change it aren't in accessible files. The only thing that might work would be replacing the "Georama-..." files in \data\fonts with a their equivalents in a different font that you've renamed to Georama. But I suspect that would lead to a lot of spacing oddiites in the UI; even with a font chosen to be similar in width to the previous one, we always have to spend quite a while fixing issues with cut-off or overlapping text whenever we change fonts.

Decc · 11-11-2023, 02:18 PM

Thanks for the reply Jeff. That was the first thing I tried, so maybe the game pulls fonts from windows rather than from the folder itself. I have no idea though. Oh well, maybe someone will have it on workshop eventually. Good luck with week 1

11-10-2023, 03:42 PM	#1
Decc Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2023 Posts: 2	Font changes? The new UI is very exciting, ready to put another few hundred hours into FHM this year. I was hoping there could be a way to change which font the game uses for most of it's text (right now it seems to be Georama) as I find it a little hard to read and strenuous on the darker background after a while. I wouldn't mind getting a little technical and into the weeds to be able to change this (and maybe text colour too), as it'll make playing the game for a long time and in the dark a little easier on the eyes.

11-11-2023, 01:30 AM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,433	It's not easily modified; a lot of the places you'd need to change it aren't in accessible files. The only thing that might work would be replacing the "Georama-..." files in \data\fonts with a their equivalents in a different font that you've renamed to Georama. But I suspect that would lead to a lot of spacing oddiites in the UI; even with a font chosen to be similar in width to the previous one, we always have to spend quite a while fixing issues with cut-off or overlapping text whenever we change fonts.

11-11-2023, 02:18 PM	#3
Decc Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2023 Posts: 2	Thanks for the reply Jeff. That was the first thing I tried, so maybe the game pulls fonts from windows rather than from the folder itself. I have no idea though. Oh well, maybe someone will have it on workshop eventually. Good luck with week 1