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)
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.
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.
It looks like this is the first post that comes up in a search for “square overmap,” so I thought it was worth necro-posting to check if this information is still current.
Related question: what would be the chances of getting this for a 15 sized font? The 10 is really small on my screen, and the 20 is very large. A 15 would be perfect.
