I don't think it's okay, but I also won't judge people with limited resources for using it for things that they realistically can't afford. I believe that humans should design every single aspect of any video game. Monotype has made that substantially more difficult. So, I won't judge a studio with limited resources if they use ai for this singular aspect of their otherwise completely human creation nearly as much as I would, say, Rockstar or EA or Activision. But there's also plenty of other ways to get a font, several people here have linked free options.

So, as far as I can tell, your arguments are that that a normal font is nothing more than the alphabet, therefore there's no art in it, and therefore the creator shouldn't have any claim to it. My argument is that every detail is an artistic choice, and that simply making it look aesthetically pleasing or distinctive is art. If fonts weren't art, why would people even bother with different looking fonts? But regardless of the art question, if the creator can't license their fonts, it would mean that they get no compensation for when some company uses their work.

>after they bought the rights to some font. Now That's What I Call Capitalism I'm already against the concept of "buying the rights" to anything, let alone buying the rights to something then *raising the cost to license it.* I would be burning fucking buildings down

You understood my arguments correctly. But I have since had my mind changed by mindbleach@sh.itjust.works so please forgive my ignorance.

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?