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jamella
Profile Joined March 2013
Sweden33 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-26 23:39:16
July 26 2013 23:38 GMT
#1
Hello

Ive been searching around for the font used ingame (the chat one) in bw, but no results

Anyone got a clue?
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
July 26 2013 23:49 GMT
#2
There are .fnt files in the mpq data in BW which i don't know how to modify. The font in battle.net channels could easily be changed however
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
jamella
Profile Joined March 2013
Sweden33 Posts
July 26 2013 23:52 GMT
#3
yeah but im talking about the ingame chat

theyre not the same, right?
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2044 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-27 00:16:58
July 27 2013 00:15 GMT
#4
Take screen shot -> upload to what the font
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

But I'm pretty sure it's just MS Sans Serif

I totally preferred the chat font before they patched it in 1.07
and oh, if you're talking about that lobby chat font, it's verdana.
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jamella
Profile Joined March 2013
Sweden33 Posts
July 27 2013 00:25 GMT
#5
Found this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v459/LOSTinIA/stupid1.jpg
Thats what im looking for

Didnt work on myfonts.com
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2044 Posts
July 27 2013 00:31 GMT
#6
On July 27 2013 09:25 jamella wrote:
Found this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v459/LOSTinIA/stupid1.jpg
Thats what im looking for

Didnt work on myfonts.com


Try manually:
http://www.identifont.com/identify.html

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Cadical *
Profile Joined September 2005
United States469 Posts
July 27 2013 01:30 GMT
#7
Starcraft uses Eurostile in game.
IMBA
itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
July 27 2013 03:27 GMT
#8
On July 27 2013 10:30 Cadical wrote:
Starcraft uses Eurostile in game.


the chat text isnt eurostile
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tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3702 Posts
July 27 2013 03:30 GMT
#9
On July 27 2013 08:49 xboi209 wrote:
There are .fnt files in the mpq data in BW which i don't know how to modify. The font in battle.net channels could easily be changed however

Its just an old rasterized font format, not particularly hard to reverse engineer or look up specs for.
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itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
July 27 2013 03:36 GMT
#10
Aside from the 'R' glyph, it's close to a rasterized and very not anti-aliased Akzidenz-Grotesk
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quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
July 27 2013 12:30 GMT
#11
On July 27 2013 12:36 itsjustatank wrote:
Aside from the 'R' glyph, it's close to a rasterized and very not anti-aliased Akzidenz-Grotesk


Yea, it looks more special because it's an extremely pixelated font for today's standards. (bw is 640x480 compared to a lot more for your friendly neighborhood game right now)
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Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
July 27 2013 13:33 GMT
#12
I didn't know where else to post this but I had a dream I found out what font the chat text was, but when I woke up I forgot.

Somewhere deep in my subconscious I know the answer!
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MadJack
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Peru357 Posts
July 30 2013 04:53 GMT
#13
Looks very similar to "kenyan coffee regular" except for the w and x. thats as close as i got, and ive been looking these 2 days
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itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9179 Posts
July 30 2013 05:56 GMT
#14
Kenyan Coffee is a narrow headline typeface created in 1999. In 2011, Kenyan Coffee was rebuilt and expanded into a larger font family. Don't forget to read the files inside the zip for details. Updated in 2012.


StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment and released for Microsoft Windows on March 31, 1998.


I don't think it's that typeface.
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Monochromatic
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States999 Posts
July 30 2013 06:02 GMT
#15
Perhaps blizzard made their own font, specifically for the chat?
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xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
July 30 2013 06:32 GMT
#16
On July 30 2013 15:02 Monochromatic wrote:
Perhaps blizzard made their own font, specifically for the chat?

I'd scratch my head if that was the case
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
Cadical *
Profile Joined September 2005
United States469 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-30 07:38:13
July 30 2013 07:33 GMT
#17
As I mentioned before it's probably Eurostile or a Blizzard's variation of it. Take a look at fonts Starcraft uses for Menu buttons, briefings, and game chat respectively.


+ Show Spoiler [font16] +
[image loading](Click to enlarge)

+ Show Spoiler [font14] +
[image loading](Click to enlarge)

+ Show Spoiler [font10] +
[image loading](Click to enlarge)


You can see that they are the same font of different sizes.
Blizzard probably did some editing on the size 10 font for better viewing though.


Now here's Eurostile typed on MSWord

+ Show Spoiler [Eurostile] +
[image loading]


There are small differences on some characters but these are very subtle.



Starcraft basically uses Eurostile or variations of it throughout the whole game, it wouldn't make sense if they had different one just for game chat.
IMBA
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