Quest log font

Xainou - Sanctuary
Xainou - Sanctuary Posts: 5,369 Arc User
edited May 2014 in Quality Corner
Could we please revert it to the font and font grade it was before the update? Looking at it now hurts b:shocked
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  • Mraochan - Lost City
    Mraochan - Lost City Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Agree! Not nearly as bad as when they added the tags to chat window tho imo.
  • PVM_only - Sanctuary
    PVM_only - Sanctuary Posts: 121 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Could we please revert it to the font and font grade it was before the update? Looking at it now hurts b:shocked

    was the first thing i saw soon i logged..... i though

    first caracter names in game with a funky font, now quest log, soon they 4get to translate patch and we play in Chinese caracters XD

    but i think its easy to revert this issue... they probably didnt even noticed, or if so they left it to last cause was easy and simply 4got it
  • surtr
    surtr Posts: 3,378 Perfect World Employee
    edited April 2014
    The font looks fine on my end; can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?
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  • Mraochan - Lost City
    Mraochan - Lost City Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Sure, here's what my old one looked like:

    http://tinypic.com/r/w2k489/8

    And here's the new one:

    http://tinypic.com/r/313g7rp/8


    Thanks for the fast response Surtr. Any chance we can get tags removed from chat? b:chuckle
  • Annalyse - Heavens Tear
    Annalyse - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,618 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I agree with this. I complained initially when they changed the NPC's text boxes (when you pick up quests) to this font because I found it difficult to read. I have since had to resort to mindlessly clicking responses and not reading the quests, which bothers me.

    When I logged in yesterday and found the quest screen the same, I was very upset. I need to be able to read these to find out what mobs to kill because tracking doesn't always tell you, and honestly it gives me a headache. It is the combination of new font/size of font - the new font would be fine if you would size it up a bit, or if you want it small go to a cleaner font. Right now it mostly blurs together for me.

    I know some people have no problem with this but you have to take into account screen size - some of us are using laptops that don't have screens as big as others have.
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  • Verenor - Morai
    Verenor - Morai Posts: 699 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Surtr wrote: »
    The font looks fine on my end; can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing?

    The font is fine, the problem mostly is that the font has become bigger, which to people with big questlists can be a petpeeve. Though I admit the old font was a lot easier on the eyes to read, especially on those long dialogue-quests..
  • Asone - Raging Tide
    Asone - Raging Tide Posts: 792 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Yea, the old font is better. I can see how the new font would be harder to read to anyone with sensitive eyes. I liked the old font more myself.
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  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited April 2014
    The biggest problem is they keep scailing the fonts up in a fashion that can only be assumed is meant to assist those with a higher resolution, but have completely left out properly scaling the UI.

    The new font isn't terrible, but it's freaking huge. I'm playing a game, and the last thing I need is the UI taking up more space that what I'm trying to play. It's not like I run super small resolutions either. I'm either windowed at 1600x900 or full-screen at 1920x1080.

    Which is another weird thing, HD on my monitor doesn't scale much, but if I put it on my TV with the same resolution, suddenly everything shrinks to a size I would find more acceptable on my PC. I've never understood that.
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  • Verenor - Morai
    Verenor - Morai Posts: 699 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »
    The biggest problem is they keep scailing the fonts up in a fashion that can only be assumed is meant to assist those with a higher resolution, but have completely left out properly scaling the UI.

    The new font isn't terrible, but it's freaking huge. I'm playing a game, and the last thing I need is the UI taking up more space that what I'm trying to play. It's not like I run super small resolutions either. I'm either windowed at 1600x900 or full-screen at 1920x1080.

    Which is another weird thing, HD on my monitor doesn't scale much, but if I put it on my TV with the same resolution, suddenly everything shrinks to a size I would find more acceptable on my PC. I've never understood that.

    I'm on a 1920x1080 as well but the font is just huge, I'm not sure how they meant for it to scale with which resolution, but certainly this wasn't the solution.
    Btw did you sit as close to your tv as you would with your monitor? :P Could be we are all supposed to sit 2 meters away from our monitor in order to read the fonts properly.
  • justdax
    justdax Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    i have issues with the changes to some of the quest naming - divine contracts in morai, for example - which now include all the "contract" labelling at the beginning making it difficult to pick the quest from thellist; then the re-ordering to automatically place all completed at the top, rather than the ones you're working on at the top makes it harder to even find the quest in the tracking list. I believe it also doesn't remember which quests i've elected to not track so they pop up in the tracking list again every time i log on -- example -- since you can't ever get the white emperor reward quest completed and it remains in the list - why bother to track it??? if it keeps getting back on my tracker and i have to keep untracking it, that's highly inconvenient.
  • Glycerin - Dreamweaver
    Glycerin - Dreamweaver Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    The font hurts my eyes too.. but it's probably because PWI changed from sans-serif to a serif font. Same pain I had when the character names were changed to serif too.

    Sidenote: I also agree with the post above me. If something is classified as 'Divine Contract', why do all quests that are divine contracts have to have that in their name if they're sorted already? It's just useless clutter. b:chuckle
  • Annalyse - Heavens Tear
    Annalyse - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,618 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Wow, I'm a little confused now.... so for many people the new font is bigger? I find it hard to read specifically because it is tiny on my screen. Possibly close to the same size as the previous one but due to the fancier style, the quests in purple/blue especially sort of blur together. It's definitely not bigger on my screen or I'd have no problem reading it.

    Edit: I don't have a picture yet comparing quest lists, but it looked about the same as when they changed the quest accepting windows. The new one has the same font as the quest lists now, and you can see the difference in readability here:
    http://174.142.61.69/e/1/9d78af35-0720-4511-b0f8-6b97e087cb63.jpg
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    Torchwood (BM) - Sataea (Seeker) - Wystera (Sin) - Allissere (SB)

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  • ovenusarmanio
    ovenusarmanio Posts: 6,695 Community Moderator
    edited April 2014
    Annalyse - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Wow, I'm a little confused now.... so for many people the new font is bigger? I find it hard to read specifically because it is tiny on my screen. Possibly close to the same size as the previous one but due to the fancier style, the quests in purple/blue especially sort of blur together. It's definitely not bigger on my screen or I'd have no problem reading it.

    Edit: I don't have a picture yet comparing quest lists, but it looked about the same as when they changed the quest accepting windows. The new one has the same font as the quest lists now, and you can see the difference in readability here:
    http://174.142.61.69/e/1/9d78af35-0720-4511-b0f8-6b97e087cb63.jpg


    These are what my windows look like. The font for the list is bigger but the menu text telling you what to do on the right is either smaller or my eyes are playing tricks on me. xD My quest text when talking to the npc is fine..

    http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i40/ariesdragon123/583f02f2-4316-4145-b89a-4eaef898503a_zpsd4cab163.png

    http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i40/ariesdragon123/adb61be3-29f2-4d4e-b31c-d903ce886f4c_zps592c0090.png

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  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited April 2014
    Verenor - Morai wrote: »
    I'm on a 1920x1080 as well but the font is just huge, I'm not sure how they meant for it to scale with which resolution, but certainly this wasn't the solution.
    Btw did you sit as close to your tv as you would with your monitor? :P Could be we are all supposed to sit 2 meters away from our monitor in order to read the fonts properly.
    On my PC it's bigger.

    When it's on my 42" TV at the same resolution, it's like all the UI reduces in size by 50%, which makes it damn near impossible to read the chat box at 10 feet away. If it did that at the same resolution on my PC, with the current font, I'd be happy, but it doesn't.
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  • Xainou - Sanctuary
    Xainou - Sanctuary Posts: 5,369 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Never knew this ended up here o_o;


    Anyfur, my main issue with the current font is that it's a thin, serif font on a dark background. Incredibly hard to read even with the current font grade. If you were to go with a negative setting like this, it either needs a serifless font or something with thicker strokes.
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  • Mraochan - Lost City
    Mraochan - Lost City Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    WTB > Age of Spirits UI paying well pm me thanks
  • Blue__Lycan - Sanctuary
    Blue__Lycan - Sanctuary Posts: 70 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Mraochan - Lost City wrote: »
    WTB > Age of Spirits UI paying well pm me thanks

    I second this.
  • DEMHEALSMAN - Dreamweaver
    DEMHEALSMAN - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,396 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Comic Sans quest log font when?
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  • affinityjjl
    affinityjjl Posts: 23 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Want the old fonts, and quest arrangements back.. Had to open up Quest list itself to make sense of which is the quest I'm doing. Banners on top of NPCs are annoying too. Whats wrong with the old 1? b:angry
  • Xainou - Sanctuary
    Xainou - Sanctuary Posts: 5,369 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Bump ...
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