Fonts

To avoid confusion in this readme:

"font asset" will refer to the font asset used in the Unity Sharedassets files.
"font file" will refer to what we usually think of as fonts, eg "MS Gothic.ttf" and "PT Sans.ttf"

Differences between Ch.1-9 and Ch.10 (Hou+)

There are two different font assets inside the vanilla sharedassets for Chapters 1-9:

msgothic_0, which is used for Japanese
msgothic_2, which is used for English

However, chapter 10 only uses one font asset, msgothic_2, for both languages.

Which font files to use when generating assets

We currently keep three fonts in this repository:

MS-Gothic.ttf: This is used when generating Japanese font assets (msgothic_0, except for Hou+).
- Based off MS Gothic
PTSans+MS-PGothic.ttf, used for our normal English font assets used in the mod (msgothic_2).
- This is the 'normal' font used in our mod.
- Based off PTSans, but because even in English mode sometimes we need to display Japanese characters, Japanese characters were filled in using MS Gothic.
DejaVuSans+MS-PGothic.ttf, used for translations which require special characters like Vietnamese (msgothic_2)
- Mainly used for translators (as it supports more languages)
- Based off DejaVuSans which supports even more non-english characters.
- Looks visually different to PTSans

Supporting more characters

For Chapters 1-8

If you're developing a translation into a non-English language like Vietnamese and you find that the font is missing characters needed for your language, try renaming the two ``msgothic_2 for non-English files over the PT Sans ones. These are based off of Deja-Vu Sans which has support for more languages than PT Sans does.

For Chapters 9 (Rei) and 10 (Hou+)

There may be some alternative fonts in the assets\files-rei and assets\files-hou-plus, if not contact the mod team to see if they can be added.

Hou Plus Notes

Hou Plus uses a single font file (msgothic_2). You will need to use the 'combined' list which contains both 'OtherLang' and Japanese characters, if you want to generate your own fonts

Chinese Font Notes

For Chinese, Noto Sans SC seems to cover all characters, but ask the translation team which font they wish to use in case they have a preferred one.

Noto Sans SC: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+SC

One team used "WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono - Regular"

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