Can Text be Enlarged?

Woof - was not able to find any option to make the dialogue text any larger - and it was *PAINFULLY* small!

Maybe our devs are working on only large monitors?

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Aszkalon

pyreal wrote: »

The UI scale slider helped me some

BEWARE OF IT, THOUGH !!

It made all the other Windows so large for me, that i was stuck at the "STONEMASONRY"-Novice Craft-Station for about One to Two Hours.

The Window got so large for me that i couldn't find/see the "Start Job" Button anymore to make Stone into Stone-Blocks at the annoying Quest-Chain to get a Horse.

The Button was "BELOW" the lower Edge and Border of my Screen -> and i had to physically pull with the Mouse Button the Window up again - before i could finally proceed.

I noticed it only after putting for an annoying long time my boiling Anger down at being stuck for no Reason. This of Course only happened because i never had such a thing happen my whole Life - but "DAMN" the brainf~xxx i felt that Day. I was so angry i could have kicked a puppy. Only in my Imagination of Course. I would never harm real living Beings. ^.^

novercalis

need FONT size option. I dont want to scale all of my UI, that is just dumb.

Aszkalon

novercalis wrote: »

need FONT size option. I dont want to scale all of my UI, that is just dumb.

100.000.000% this !!!

Nypam

I think the problem is not only the font size but the overall font readability!

It's so painful right now. It's so difficult to decrypt and not really accessible for people with less optimal eyesight.

Nypam

1000%

The game in his current state is unbearable for people with eyesight problem.

My eyesight is not that bad for 40+ but I have a HARD time to read the quest text / tooltips.

I stopped played early on because it was too painful. The UI scale doesn't change the problem for me.

Intrepid should find another typography designed for screen and improved readability.

Thank you!

willsummon

I have been enjoying the Alpha Two so far. I have been trying to find things to report.

This is not a bug. Though, when you update the HUD editor, it would be nice to have the option to change the font sizes of the texts of specific boxes. Such as on the quest box, NPC dialogue box, loot box.

While I can read the text, the text size right now is a little to small for my tastes.

Having the option to increase the font size of text would reduce eye strain for some players.

ilt

it would be great if we could adjust the font size of text in game; especially in storage unites and bags, when it comes to trying to read the number of items in a stack it can be very difficult.

Leiloni

palabana wrote: »

The font is terrible. Illegible typeface design, paired with little to no letter spacing. It's good on a 34" screen at 1440p and above. At 1080p or smaller screens, it's garbage.

I concur and it's even more garbage on lower end machines. I recently finally made some long planned upgrades to my graphics card and monitor and while the text is still tiny, it's far easier to read than it was prior. It was almost unplayable before.

Vaknar

Merged similar threads regarding font and text size and scale

DeadlyDave

Locating your group on the map , isit a mini game ? (takes me ages).
Finding Waldo is easier.
My eyes are old, they are not as sharp as they once was, please make the text & map icons bigger.

Drezao

Not only the letters, all the HUD/interface design is outdated and requires more love and work

Leiloni

novercalis wrote: »

need FONT size option. I dont want to scale all of my UI, that is just dumb.

Completely agree. I need the font to be a different style of font that's more easily readable but also much larger, but I need the UI windows to be smaller. On a 1080p resolution making the UI windows larger takes up the entire screen. Most MMO's I have plenty of screenspace but here there's so many UI elements and they're so oddly large even when I try to make them smaller that I feel like I can't see much. Really hoping they can edit the UI down while increasing the text size and making it more readable.

caldrin

Need font size and mouse cursor size..

petsod

GMSteven answered this when ask during his interview with PireateSoftware. Currently only thing you can do is to increase scale of ui, but it make everything on screen so large. He said an fix should be coming but other things currently have higher priority.

petsod

Twitch > PirateSoftware > Videos > Recent broadcasts > [Currently second video listed @ 13:54:00 lenght].

@ 11:06:04

Q: "Font size is currently not scalable."

A: I just had a conversation with our UI team about that last week. Obviously, you can press the backslash button to scale individual UI elements, but of course, that also scales the graphical components as well. There is an intention to provide the feature to scale the font in the future, but when that comes online, it's probably not until, I'd say, phase 3.

For now, I had a sweeping change. I'm not sure if it's in this build or if it's down in our QA branch and will come up next week, but it will just overall increase the font size across the board."

Lughlaoch

Steven mentioned this in either the live stream BEFORE the Alpha II went live or in the interview on Pirate Software with Thor. They're fully aware of the size of the font and it's "scaleability" with the other UI segments such as the minimap. I don't want a gigantic minimap, I just need to be able to read the text. It's on the list of priorities, and honestly, last Sunday/Monday, after an update I thought it WAS larger, but maybe I'm crazy. I didn't look again for the option.
The dev who created the UI font text just was at the eye doctor because he couldn't figure out why his eyes were bleeding from trying to read the screen.

Fippy

I'm just here to agree that the text size is completely unreadable to me. I would LOVE to be able to scale *just* the font size, rather than the whole element.

pieohpah

DeadlyDave wrote: »

Locating your group on the map , isit a mini game ? (takes me ages).
Finding Waldo is easier.
My eyes are old, they are not as sharp as they once was, please make the text & map icons bigger.

I can’t read anything on my screen cause if my slightly old eyes :-)

Endowed

DeadlyDave wrote: »

Locating your group on the map , isit a mini game ? (takes me ages).
Finding Waldo is easier.
My eyes are old, they are not as sharp as they once was, please make the text & map icons bigger.

My minimap and map do NOT show players triangles. I have to toggle the group-player button (eyeball) of and on several times to see glimpses of them.

retnaburn

As this is Alpha testing, I can overlook many things like mobs floating in the air, drowning on dry land, pathing errors, warping or falling through the ground etc. But Steven himself, who also wears glasses. is basically disses on everyone with poor eyesight by denying them the ability to socialize with everyone with a chat window with micro text size that can't be changed, I take issue with that.

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