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The Elma Font...

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Does anyone know what the elma font is called?
Does anyone maybe even have it?
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looks like comic sans serif font
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No. It doesn't look the least bit like Comic Sans.
I'm not sure what font it is, but it looks a bit like a font called "Arial Rounded (MT Bold)".
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Well, it looks a little like comic sans, but the a's are different and the elma font is straighter with more rounded lines.
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I repeat, it looks nothing like Comic Sans. :lol:
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MagnusB wrote:I repeat, it looks nothing like Comic Sans. :lol:
nah it does if you take a screeny the put them both in ms paint
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Hmm, are you talking about the font in the intro screen, the font used for the menus or the font in the background?
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The intro font and menu font are the same, that's what I was asking about...
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I thought they were the same...
I still think it looks nothing like Comic Sans. The elma font has straight lines and curved corners, Comic Sans has neither.
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Or, you could ask MUe or Balázs.
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or it could just be a made up personalized font that you cant get
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But Hibernatus must have got it somehow when he made his patches, right?
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zworqy wrote:But Hibernatus must have got it somehow when he made his patches, right?
how can copy some of the letters like in photoshop and then modify parts of the letters to make the ones you want, if youve ever made a fake id u will kno wot i mean, its not that hard it just takes a little while
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Post by partybear »

woh?

i think the menu entries are not pictures but text in the specific font
so hib had only to change the text, not the pictures
same with level names i think
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I'm sure the text in Elma is TEXT, not IMAGES.
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it must be TEXT, if it was images then Balazs would be.... nevermind

but the font's UGLY anyway, yuck, fuck!!
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It is images i think. I mean the fonts of course, not the whole text.
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there is some program to change the text in the game, so it have to be TEXT...
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Or, you could ask Hibernatus.
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lol, ragnar, i'm sorry i didn't understand your PM. My reply is kinda useless then :)
About the text/pic discussion:
Intro text is a pic (see intro12.pcx for example).
Menu text is "text" displayed with bitmap fonts (pics that are stored in MENU.ABC in a format i documented in ABC.TXT).

How i made the 1.2 text: Extracted "1" and "2" from MENU.ABC and i changed the palette from yellow to brown.

The elma base font: I don't know, i guess balazs used a TTF font and some effect in photoshop/PSP. Just browse the fonts collections on the internet. Try hungarian sites :) You can compare thanks to intro12.pcx and PSP for example.

/edit: in psp under xp, i have a font named @Gulim and it seems to be the elma font if you use it bold.
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MagnusB wrote:No. It doesn't look the least bit like Comic Sans.
I'm not sure what font it is, but it looks a bit like a font called "Arial Rounded (MT Bold)".
MagnusB was absolutely right.

quote from domovoy's BBOEF:
Typeface used in Action SuperCross title screen and menu is VAG Rounded. Ironically, this typeface was designed for automotive company.
Typeface used in ElastoMania title screen and menu is Arial Rounded.
Typeface used in ElastoMania menu background is Dom Casual designed in 1951, which makes it the oldest typeface of all used in across and elma.
Typeface used in “Secret area” sign is likely Arial, though it can be any similar typeface.
Font used in qcolors.pcx is Small Fonts 7px.
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