# Good font for overmap?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/good-font-for-overmap/15215>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [March 30, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/good-font-for-overmap/15215 "2018-03-30T19:07:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![AdonaiJr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/adonaijr/32/5893_2.png) [@AdonaiJr](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AdonaiJr)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/good-font-for-overmap/15215/6 "2018-07-13T15:57:36Z")

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Screenshot from my current game:

 ![45](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/1/1e4719d91ba2bd1f2bdb4db007e29a8d638cc9d0.png)

Original post from Antistar:

> [@Including the RetroASCII font overmap as an option](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/including-the-retroascii-font-overmap-as-an-option/11508):
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> 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](http://static-1.nexusmods.com/15/mods/411/images/1-0-1433569030.png), grab the RetroASCII Overmap Font package from the Nexus link below. Instructions are in the included readme file. Download: [Nexus](http://www.nexusmods.com/cataclysmdarkdaysahead/mods/1/)[/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](https://www.dropbox.com/s/x04m6e2ynmb8t7y/Square%20Overmap%20Font.zip)**
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> Shared with Dropbox

Should be a directory on your Cataclysm root directory.

> **example:**
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> ![54](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/a/a498b34abc885dea1447934d0623529228c7e1bb.png)

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.

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