What's your favorite Sierra font?

[Collector]

No epistemological interest, I see.

[Kawa]

Not at 2:40 in the night, I don't :3

[Doan Sephim]

I'd really like to use that WILCO font for a game I'm working on. Does anyone have the Font Resource I could add to my game's resources?

[Kawa]

I attached Wilco Serif.fon back on page 1.

[Doan Sephim]

I attached Wilco Serif.fon back on page 1.

I downloaded it a couple times but have not had any success installing it on my computer or opening it with companion.

[Kawa]

Really? I just downloaded that specific file, opened SCI Companion, File > Open Patch File... and there it is.

Of course, installing it as a font on Windows or Linux or whathaveyou would be doomed to fail since this is an SCI font resource

And in my stash, in the fonts folder, is a version that's reordered to match Win-1252 that I just whipped up, but doesn't have all the characters yet.

[Doan Sephim]

Gotcha. It works just fine. Thanks for the walk-through. I was going about it in the wrong direction!

Thanks again.

[Kawa]

What direction was that?

[Doan Sephim]

What direction was that?

I was trying to install it to Windows then use the companion feature to draw an approximation. Obviously that was the wrong way to go

[Kawa]

Because obviously a .fon file is always a Windows bitmap font, like the old MS Sans Serif. No way it could be the very format the game it's from uses.</sarcasm>

I'm reminded of Sega Genesis/Mega Drive roms usually being .bin files. So helpful and handy.

[MusicallyInspired]

We all have brainfarts.

[Kawa]

True, but at least .fon for font files makes some sense, even if you can't tell Windows and SCI fonts apart. Genesis .bin files have no excuse.

(similar issue: .grp files, Program Manager and the Build engine)

[Collector]

But Build engine files would not be in the Windows directory where the Program Manager .grp files were. It has been awhile, but wasn't there also a Program Manager ini file that listed all of the groups?

[MusicallyInspired]

Yeah, Genesis BIN files made no sense to me. Everything else had an easily identifiable extension, but....bin? Someone truly unimaginative implemented that. Probably a programmer.