Huh, what's with this font?

[Springheel]

I'm having a problem with the carleton font in the purchase screen. It seems like, for some reason, the "P" goes out of bounds and gets cut off.

 

In the cost box below (I made it white so you can see the size), the price is right-justified. But for some reason the P is cut off. I could justify it on the left, but then the prices wouldn't line up properly. This doesn't happen with the other fonts I tried, just carleton. I have no idea how the size of individual letters is calculated, so I'm kind of stuck here. Any ideas of how to solve this problem, other than just using a different font?

 

[Schatten]

Non-symmetric fonts (asymmetric?) sometimes define the width of the capitals somewhat smaller than the graphic representation, so that it won't look like there's a gap space between capitals and the rest. Look at the "Wa" from "Waterarrow".

 

The letter width is defined within the font itself, so you would need a font editor to change that, and words which start with a capital P will probably look like "P orter" or so.

 

Have you tried putting one or two blanks behind the P? Or if they're autotrimmed, try Alt+255, or use a full-stop.

[Springheel]

Thanks, Schatten.

 

Joe, are you reading this thread? I'm not 100% sure where the "GP" is set in the mainmenu gui. Is it possible to add a space after it?

[joebarnin]

Right now this is in the C++ code, which is bad. I'll come up with a fix to make it available in the GUI or someplace. And I'll add a space after it.

 

Thanks, Shatten, for figuring this out. I believe this is called "kerning". Higher-end composition systems don't reduce the font width, they actually carry a separate table of values for character pairs. This is the the amount to "back up" when laying out a pair of characters, after laying out the first character. Trivia for the day.

[Domarius]

And interesting to know