[2020] Update to appearance of UI text

Hi everyone,

Later today Singularity will be updated with a new build for testing. Among the things you may notice will be a slight change to the appearance of the text in the UI. We are experimenting with some new rendering techniques to enhance readability of the text.

Since the update will be arriving on Sisi before formal communications about this change are ready we just wanted to make a quick post to say yes - if the UI text looks different you’re not imagining things, it’s on purpose and we’ll be giving you more information on the how’s and why’s and seeking your feedback soon.

Thanks!

Very tentatively - I don’t think the next mirror will be occurring until later in October.

That’s super useful, thanks!

Hello everyone,

Thanks a lot for checking the new font out and sharing your feedback with us. We have been working on addressing some of the initial concerns and issues and are now deploying the following fixes to Singularity:

• Fixed issue on the fitting window that did not allow to open all info tabs at the same time for Small and Medium font size.
• Fixed issue on the inventory window not displaying enough information when set to icon mode.
• Fixed issues with overlapping and cut off text in several locations: Planetary Production, loyalty store, character sheet, Hypernet, note pad, fitting window, fleet window, the Agency, Corporation window.

We would be happy if you could take a moment and see if that makes the overall experience better for you. Thanks a lot!

What is happening there is that the font size defaults to ‘Medium’. To compare to what is the closest to Tranquility right now you should go in-game into Settings > General Settings > Font Size and change it to ‘Small’.

From your experience, does that apply to all the text or only the one written in bold?