Good font for overmap?

[Hirmuolio]

By default the game use unifont at font size 16. The 8x16 size heavily distorts the map and makes everything look longer in north-south compared to east-west.

Does anyone have any good square font that works at around font size 9 (a bit bigger font is probably needed when playing on a display with “modern resolution”)? The square font included with the game is passable but it could look better.

Also are there any overmap mods that would take advantage of also changing the font? Small house icons isntead of letters or something.

(the overmap font can be changed by editing fonts.json in config folder)

[Mantar]

I use “Topaz-8”

A big chunk of map

[kuros]

How do you change the overland map to that font?

[mlangsdorf]

In the config folder, there’s a fontlist.txt and a fonts.json.

Edit fonts.json so the final four entries look like this:
“overmap_fontwidth”: 16,
“overmap_fontheight”: 16,
“overmap_fontsize”: 16,
“overmap_typeface”: “square”

That changes the map so each character is 16 pixels wide, 16 pixels tall, using a font scaled for 16 pixels, and designed for looking good square. The “square” typeface seems to ship with C:DDA. If you want to use something else, consult the list of fonts in fontlist.txt and choose one of them by its name, not including the three letter acronym like .tff or .otf.

You may get weird results depending on what results you use, but the important bit is to make the overmap_fontheight and overmap_fontsize entries the same. You’ll also need to reload the game after you make any changes because the config files are read at start.

[Mantar]

I usually play in ASCII using a terminal on linux, so I just set that as a terminal font.

[AdonaiJr]

Screenshot from my current game:

Original post from Antistar:

Including the RetroASCII font overmap as an option

Okay, I’ve got the font used in RetroDays and RetroASCII set up to be used by the overmap so that it has square (rather than rectangular) tiles, as detailed here: [quote=“Antistar, post:1, topic:5201”]RetroASCII Overmap Font: If you want your in-game overmap to look like this, grab the RetroASCII Overmap Font package from the Nexus link below. Instructions are in the included readme file. Download: Nexus[/quote] It’s a separate-download mod, more or less - but it doesn’t use the game’s built-…

As from that day, I gladly use that overmap font. It’s from the creator of Retrodays tileset.

Ages ago I’ve made a simple .bat file (for windows) that install that for me. Useful when I update the game manually.

Square Overmap Font.zip

Should be a directory on your Cataclysm root directory.

example:

Then you execute the bat file. It “installs” the font. You can do it manually (and choose a bigger format too) reading the instructions on the readme file.