general: pick some fonts

[jbilcke]

Finding a nice font is not easy, because we want a futurist-looking font, and there are less of these compared to "mainstream" fonts.

Moreover mainstream fonts are often optimized for all kind of resolutions and special characters, some support internationalization etc.. and available in italic, light, bold etc.. while indie/fantasy fonts are often only available in one or two flavors.

Another thing, we will probably use different fonts for the same thing, it will depend on the factions/themes chosen by the player.

So here is a tentative of listing fonts which could be used:

General

Nice fonts that work with anything:

1. light/round: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/primus
2. massive: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Orbitron
3. electronic: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Greyscale-Basic
4. geometry: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bender
5. very geometric: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/laconic

   In game

For the UI:

For alert messages, instant messaging..

The UI is important and is the identity of the game, so we pick one of the general fonts:

1. light/round: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/primus
2. massive: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Orbitron
3. electronic: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Greyscale-Basic
4. geometric: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bender
5. very geometric: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/laconic

A bit harder to use: funny one: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Heavy-Data dots: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/BPdots dots: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/BPdotsUnicase

Could be used in some textures and decoration, as decals: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Heavy-Data http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Spin-Cycle-OT http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Codename-Coder-Free-4F http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DymaxionScript http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Dubtronic

Website

Note: like the game, the website could also represent different factions

For headlines: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Codename-Coder-Free-4F http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/laconic

For paragraphs:

Lot of options here..

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Colaborate http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/District-Thin http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/laconic http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/questrial http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/sofia-pro http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/qubo http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/source-sans-pro http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/jura1 http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/sinkin-sans

For some side panels: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Codename-Coder-Free-4F

[jbilcke]

added the font to the branch atgc-core-fonts, in the directory public/fonts still nothing has been done in the css, so a bit more work is necessary before using them