StaceyPowers Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) What are your favorite and least favorite typefaces in video games? I don't know what it's called, but I absolutely despise the typeface featured in the books in Skyrim. It isn’t ugly to look at, and it fits the character of the world, but it is very hard to read, especially at length, which actually deters me from the books unless I am very interested in the subjects. I wish Skyrim did things like TLOU, where when you look at a book or note, you see it as it exists in the game world, but you can then click again and it will overlay easily legible text. This lets you pick the levels of immersion versus legibility you prefer. Most of my favorite typefaces are in Bioshock games: https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/Fonts I like Century Gothic with the wider tracking. Andes is beautiful, and I currently have it on my desktop fonts. I’m head over heels for Eccentric as well. Triforce being a Zelda reference intrigued me. Edited May 28, 2019 by StaceyPowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 I usually hate those broken fonts which are harder to read. Usually found in those future punk games or say historical or even the scifi type games. I just can't read that font clearly and that's why I hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 My favorite was always the Diablo font. Something about it just clicked with me. Off the top of my head I can't really think of one from gaming that I hate, but there is one that I've always despised. It's that fucking blood font. I can't stand it. It's so stupid. If you're not under 10 years old, then by using it you're only going to make yourself and everyone around you look like an idiot. My all time favorite font however is Minister 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DylanC Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 (edited) In the awful Silent Hill HD Collection, the dev cheaped out and changed some of the sign’s fonts to Comic Sans! I shit you not. Edited June 1, 2019 by DylanC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyPowers Posted June 2, 2019 Author Share Posted June 2, 2019 On 6/1/2019 at 2:02 AM, DylanC said: In the awful Silent Hill HD Collection, the dev cheaped out and changed some of the sign’s fonts to Comic Sans! I shit you not. ... Wow. I don't even know what to say about that, lol. DylanC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 I think those GTA type vandalism pro games also don't have good typefaces. And we often ignore it and usually read them in assumption. It's often hard to read in those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 The best typeface I have encountered in a videogame is in the Elder Scrolls Oblivion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I think I personally loved the typefaces in modern space type games. Those fonts look rad. I mean they tend to have this cool interface along with fonts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyxx Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 (edited) I tend to prefer easy to read typefaces over the fancy ones. I particularly enjoy the fonts used in the Call of Duty series and cyberpunk games. Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the original Deus Ex has some of the most pleasing fonts to me. Edited September 21, 2019 by Alyxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 I think cyberpunk type fonts are those futuristic looking one can be interesting. I mean many of those we already see around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyxx Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 10 hours ago, skyfire said: I think cyberpunk type fonts are those futuristic looking one can be interesting. I mean many of those we already see around. And I love it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfire Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 There are also some arcade fonts even used to date. Like those used for tank and pooyan type of games. those fonts are definitely still out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
