[Skyrise]

Well, it is becoming a problem now, but SA-MP's font is creating some issues. The fact that 'I' and 'l' are exactly the same, it is a problem for people trying to impersonate others. It should be adjusted.

[Guest9328472398472]

I agree. It becomes confusing at times, it would be great if they can in somewhat update this so it wouldn't like similar.

[leong124]

It has been reported for a long time and there was no response.
That is the problem of the Arial font, but the dev team seems no to change it.
I suggest the dev team to change it to tahoma, it can distinguish I and l.
It doesn't cost much time to change it I think.

[Skyrise]

Agreed.

[kaisersouse]

I'm not expert on this, so this is just my opinion and theory. I'm _thinking_ that Arial is considered "safe" because Arial has shipped with every computer since words were appearing on computer screens (I exaggerate, but you get the idea).

I too prefer Tahoma over Arial, but at the same time if you dont want to risk someones game breaking because they don't have Tahoma (for whatever reason...and I'm sure that not having Tahoma is rare nowadays)...you use a font that everybody already has (Arial).

But yes if there was a 0% chance Tahoma wouldn't break anyones client, I'd personally prefer Tahoma. If there is a .001% chance it will break someones client...I'd stay with Arial

[leong124]

Isn't there some other fonts that are included for a very long time? They can also be considered.
I don't have much idea for how long the fonts re implemented, so I am just giving some ideas.

[Kyle]

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Originally Posted by kaisersouse I'm not expert on this, so this is just my opinion and theory. I'm _thinking_ that Arial is considered "safe" because Arial has shipped with every computer since words were appearing on computer screens (I exaggerate, but you get the idea). I too prefer Tahoma over Arial, but at the same time if you dont want to risk someones game breaking because they don't have Tahoma (for whatever reason...and I'm sure that not having Tahoma is rare nowadays)...you use a font that everybody already has (Arial). But yes if there was a 0% chance Tahoma wouldn't break anyones client, I'd personally prefer Tahoma. If there is a .001% chance it will break someones client...I'd stay with Arial

Do checks on if they have the font installed... Or supply the font with the sa-mp client install.

[DoctorRapist]

Supply a font with the SA-MP Client ! Instead of one person doing it, Everyone can do it ?

[Basssiiie]

Officially you can only play SA-MP on Windows and Tahoma should be available on every Windows PC. Here's a list of the most common fonts on Windows, where Tahoma lists higher than Arial. The same website also claims that Tahoma is on 95.92% of the Mac PCs, but on 0% of the Linux PCs. Arial is on 99.90% of Windows PCs, 98.89% of Mac PCs and 69.43% of Linux PCs. But again, to play SA-MP, it will officially only work through Windows.

This website has a list of fonts which are available on all Windows versions and Macs. Although that list is not updated anymore since 2008, so it's likely Windows 7 and 8 and some Mac versions aren't checked for the list, but I'm suggestion that those default fonts aren't very different from Vista and the 2008 Mac.

[SDraw]

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Originally Posted by ****** Why has no-one yet advocated comic sans? Everyone loves that font!

Oh, no!....Nooo....no...