# Changing the font in game

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-the-font-in-game/1737>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-the-font-in-game/1737 "2013-06-12T02:11:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeadWeight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeadWeight](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeadWeight)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-the-font-in-game/1737/1 "2013-06-12T02:11:04Z")

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Hey all, got a weird question, I just got the new version of .5 (loving the changes so far btw) but the font looks so weird to me, I got use to the other one so things look off now, is there any way to change the font in game to look different?

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**Author:** ![Blaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Blaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blaze)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-the-font-in-game/1737/2 "2013-06-12T02:27:36Z")

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From what I can tell:  
Place the font you want to use in the “Font” folder of your “Data” directory.  
Open up “FONTDATA” in your “Data” directory with a text editor.  
It’s currently:

```auto

```

Change it to 3 lines, for example the old font is:

`
Terminus
8
16`  
First line is your font’s file path. The “Terminus” font does not need a font file (.ttf).  
Second line is the game screen’s horizontal size.  
Third line is the game screen’s vertical size.

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**Author:** ![DeadWeight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeadWeight](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeadWeight)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-the-font-in-game/1737/3 "2013-06-12T03:24:01Z")

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I tried it but nothing changed 😕