Nice fonts?

Unity Engine
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In lots of people games they always have nice fonts, multicoloured with outlines, shadows and gradients. But all that comes with TextMesh which is boring one coloured fonts. I can’t just render fonts to images because my games need to be translated or have scores and other dynamic text.

I would like to put some nice fonts in my games. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel by creating my own font code or rendering my own fonts. Just a nice font set with outlines and gradients on it would do. (Oh, and it should support all European characters sets including Greek and Cyrillic).

Can anyone suggest where I can get such a thing? Are there any font textures I could download? Preferably free or inexpensive!

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You can use bitmap fonts. (But not with OnGUI code, only objects like TextMesh and GUIText.)

–Eric

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How can I use bitmap fonts and where can I download some nice bitmap fonts to use with Unity?

Don;t worry found something. I might try this: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/9720

Although I would prefer one that worked on Unity 3.5

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Also I’m going to try this one: http://u3d.as/content/img-games/vfont/3fR

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There are tons of fonts available from Google Fonts that you can use. Then just look into how to convert true type fonts to bitmap fonts. I don’t think it’s a difficult process:

http://www.google.com/fonts#

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Yeah, I was looking for multicoloured fonts though.

Doesn’t matter I’ve found a way to give my fonts outlines using a few tricks. And Even managed to have animated textures inside my fonts with a little shader trickery :smile:

Just goes to show, if you want something done right do it yourself. :lol: