Those of you familiar with my work probably notice I use the same fonts and rarely change. That's because I hate finding and choosing fonts. I'm pretty indifferent to them and when I find one that's nice and readable and looks OK, I cling to it until I cannot use it anymore.

So... I've been working on Tenshi No Uta and the billions of menu screens in the game. It's just not going to be possible to use the fat font I'm using for the main dialog and main menu. See below:

Main Menu:
http://transcorp.parodius.com/newsimages/newsimage83a.png

Dialog:
http://transcorp.parodius.com/newsimages/newsimage86b.png


Looks all nice... NOW... let's look at the menus:

http://www.romhacking.net/misc/tenshifont1.png

'Magic' is actually reused tiles from the main menu, so it's going to stay fat. However, the rest is not. The font is too fat to list the necessary words. The character's name is to the left there and that's going to need to be even more scrunched to fit longer names. A description is printed in the bottom box and middle box lists items/magic/etc. in two columns similar to this, but in two columns:

http://www.romhacking.net/misc/tenshifont2.png

We've also got battle screens like this:

http://www.romhacking.net/misc/tenshifont3.png


So... I need help with finding a font (preferably already VWF friendly) that will fit this game. I guess it's going to have to be thin to fit the required stuff on the menus. There's not a lot of opportunity for rearranging much of anything. Screen space can be all used up in many cases. There are just tons of packed menu screens in this game using more than one font size with several different printing routines. I'd like to choose one font use it for all the menus, shops etc.. Any suggestions?

The screenshots I took are just from the beginning of the game. I don't have any saves available from later on right now to show just how packed the screens get. Making the font thin and turn somewhere around 10 font routines into VWF is about the best that I can likely do. This game is seriously trying my patience. The menus are going to be slow in full VWF.

That's what I use for 8x8. So if you happen to come across a menu that uses that... Yeah, it's probably not the best font in the world, but it saves a ton of screen space

cYa,

Tauwasser

Yeah, that's why I said if you later found a menu that uses 8x8

cYa,

Tauwasser

IIRC, this should be the closest thing to the original font:

It's an edit of one of Windows' fonts, but I can't remember the name anymore. I made the thing one pixel thinner and that's the result. By the way, only the basic alphanumeric characters are from that Windows font; the rest are made from scratch.