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Fonts in video games

A topic by nadyakzmn created Mar 10, 2019 Views: 308 Replies: 2
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I'm making a research about using fonts in video games.
Could you, please, help me and share your experience.

What are possible font formats that are used in games? What are their technical advantages and disadvantages?

Thank you for the help!

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I always use TTF or OTF fonts, because it's easy, and you can render them in any size and color from just one font file. Also these are standard formats used by all modern operating systems, so I can use the exact same fonts in promotional art, or on the website. On the other hand they require a game engine with support for them, and then they take more CPU and RAM to render than bitmap fonts.

Thank you so much for the response! I haven't thought about using the same font for promotion. You are totally right, that's a great benefit.