So design a couple fonts. It ain't rocket science.

I'm guessing the problem is they want a relatively unique font to avoid looking the same as other games, and then once they've chosen their font they're pretty much stuck with it unless they're willing to change the look of their game (for live-service games at least). A number of the fonts there might work for new stuff though.

1) that's literally one of the most bigoted comments I've ever seen in the fediverse 2) your comment is in English, a language so non-functional it's the only one that had to have spelling bees to get kids to learn its asinine rules

This is not what I expected when I clicked "show more replies."

Japanese fonts are much harder to make than English fonts. Thousands of characters and all that.

Kanji has over two thousand typical characters. Feel free to contribute several to open-source fonts.

Uhh... Basically every language I can think of have had some form of childhood activity that pushed learning it's asinine rules at some point in it's history. Cause fun fact. Literally every language that has ever existed is batshit crazy, makes no sense and might as well be unhinged nonsense. That's not a monopoly English has. Not by a fucking long shot. That guy's comment is racist as fuck tho

Respect. You certainly don't see this everyday.

Admittedly I'm not sure if it works for Japanese, but English has online tools you can use to print out a sheet to write out every character and scan to turn into a font file. Would be surprising if it didn't exist for Japanese. So ultimately you probably just need someone with neat handwriting.

I also think it's an excellent time for Americans to drop imperial units and use metrics like a functional measurement system - is this also racist?

Owning literal letters has got to be the dumbest shit I've heard in my life. Fucking leeches.

Sorry to disappoint lol. It's bad enough I acted like a fool without oersisting in my folly through pride after realizing it.

I don't mean to agree with that other person hating on kanji, but if they're going to take on the task of making a new font they could potentially alter the writing system somewhat to simplify some things and/or extend versatility of some characters. A new evolution would be exciting.

Someone with neat handwriting, a few hours to burn, and lots of patience

No, that's a whole new unrelated topic. Any other questions?

I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system, and imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system... why is one racist and the other is not?

Insulin in the US?

>I think ideograms suck because they are an extremely bad writing system That's nice, but what you originally said was that "the Japanese don't have a functional writing system", which is bigoted, because it constitutes an unreasonable belief/prejudice against a particular group of people ("the Japanese"). It's an unreasonable position because the Japanese writing system is obviously functional, as millions of people use it to great effect every day. >imperial units suck because they are an extremely bad measurement system This is not bigotry because it isn't an unreasonable belief, and it doesn't target/prejudice against one specific group (other than 'imperial measurement users', which isn't really an identifying or culturally significant group). >Bonus question: If I say it's an excellent time to drop the Gregorian calendar do I win at racism for expanding it to the whole world? Bonus answer: no, bigotry targets/prejudices against a *specific* identifying group. "The whole world" doesn't qualify as a group that you can be bigoted against. Hating everyone makes you a grumpy curmudgeon, but not a racist. Hope this helps.

Modern fonts have extra stuff to make rendering better. Like hinting, which changes subpixel representations. Without those, you wouldn't like the look of something like a character with a height of 10px on a 1080p display and would have to use way higher DPI stuff, with characters taking more pixels. Won't be unusable though. Automatically done anti-aliasing tends to be good enough too.

Do you make it a habit to misquote people on purpose? My post is right there, if you want to use quotation marks to say I said something, at least write what I actually wrote instead of making something up, that's very dishonest. I'm very specifically saying ideograms/logograms aren't a "functional" writing system (yeah, they are technically "functional" - as imperial units, they are just very bad). Ideograms/logograms aren't exclusive to the Japanese - and neither do the Japanese use only that system (so your fabricated quote is non sequitur). The mention of Japanese is a context parody of the comment I replied to, had the guy said "Excellent time for Chinese..." then my sentence would say Chinese instead of Japanese. I'm roasting a writing system and you all trying to make it about race... quite sad and pathetic excuse to be outraged. ps: "Imperial measurement users" are an "identifying or culturally significant group", they are called Americans - technically, Liberia and Myanmar also primarily use imperial units, but they are not a culturally significant group over the internet. So if you are talking about "imperial measurement users", you are talking about Americans.