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Switch to more complete font #54

Closed thombruce closed 11 months ago

thombruce commented 11 months ago

Kenvector Future by Kenney (kenney.nl) only really has capital letters and numbers. As I am now thinking about adding a currency to the game in the near future, I want a more expansive set with symbols I could reasonably use as currency symbols.

To my mind, Xi is the most appropriate for a global Earth-based currency:

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Though we might consider use of some other Greek letter too. Omega, Phi and Chi are good options too.

The font Xolonium by Severin Meyer looks similar enough to what I have been using, while also including lowercase, Greek and Cyrillic letters: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/xolonium It's OFL licensed, meaning it must carry the same license with it but it can be bundled into software, even commercial. I also intend to give credit to Severin Meyer.

It supports a bunch of other characters too:

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thombruce commented 11 months ago

Actually, Kenvector Future has more character support than I thought, though it is certainly not as rich as Xolonium.

thombruce commented 11 months ago

The existence of a basic Cyrillic set in Xolonium will also help with internationalisation... though it is by no means complete in this sense.

thombruce commented 11 months ago

Xolonium added and the UI updated to use Xolonium-Bold here: e85a2d3bd462f5672f22e81d193ad3673d7fd736