Are you thinking of making a new font for FFV and FFVI? I rather like Candara, as used in the FFIII, FFIV, and The After Years font mod by galneon, although FFVI might be better off using Candara Bold since it uses Arial Bold.

Ah good choice... I merge the fonts. Now all missing letters/symbols are included (like the japanese letter of Cyans Ability):
http://uploaded.net/file/gk5qhv47
Mirror: http://www.filedropper.com/ff6pc-font

I hope somebody can smooth the font in-game out =/

A font mod for V and VI that adds a better looking font would be greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by maxrebo2:

A font mod for V and VI that adds a better looking font would be greatly appreciated.

This was something I was thinking of changing myself. As soon as we get the modding tool I'm going to look into it... Unless someone changes it quicker.

What would be a cool idea is somehow getting the TTF of Chicago to work in-game. It would need to be slimmed down by a bit though; I bet there'd be tons of spillovers otherwise. Chicago would make the game feel a little more like the SNES version.

Edit - Chrome says the file is malicious? That's strange. It's just a True Type Font file in a ZIP, right?

Jepp only a virus-free fonttype. Thats strange...

Do you think you could upload it to an alternative site just for people who are afraid of viruses?

Mirror: http://www.filedropper.com/ff6pc-font

Thanks, no problems this time. I just installed it! :) For anyone else wondering how to install, go here:
1. [...]\Steam\steamapps\common\Final Fantasy 6\obb\font
2. Backup your Arial-Bold TTF
3. Replace the original Arial-Bold TTF with adventureFAN's modified font
4. Enjoy the new font! :)

Edit 1 - Candara Bold looks fantastic in-game. Thanks, adventureFAN. :)
Edit 2 - In case anyone wanted some screenshots - http://imgur.com/a/6ZFcu

Yeah, looks wonderful =]

Originally posted by TiresomeTeddybear:

What would be a cool idea is somehow getting the TTF of Chicago to work in-game.

The problem with that idea is that the version of Chicago that the series used in the SNES days was a bitmap font, with shadows and everything built into the font itself. And as far as I've seen, Chicago is one of those fonts that just doesn't seem to work well as TTF (Terminus is like that too, FYI).

I would say you might be better off going to Rom Hacking and seeing what font they used in the Font Restoration Project of Final Fantasy 6 Advance. I believe that was a TTF.

So this method seems to work on FFVI. What about FFV?

Shouldn't this be moved to releases?

Oh interesting. Hadn't realized that it worked on FF6. I'll have to make a few before/after shots and put it up.

Originally posted by DarkPhoenixFF4:

The problem with that idea is that the version of Chicago that the series used in the SNES days was a bitmap font, with shadows and everything built into the font itself. And as far as I've seen, Chicago is one of those fonts that just doesn't seem to work well as TTF (Terminus is like that too, FYI).

FF6A follows a similar approach. The font can be a max of 4 colors. There's actually 2 fonts, each of different max-height but each have variable character width. They can be edited with some utilities but no direct ttf import is possible.

As for pixel fonts, most I've found in the past work well on specific size (example 16 & 32 or 18, 24 & 30) but look like garbage if you set the font size to another value.

There's an alternate Chicago TTF, I've tried it on a website and it's lot less eyes bleeding than pixels font set on wrong sizes, though it's not optimal either IMO: http://www.fontspace.com/casady-and-greene/chicagoflf