Oolite Fonts

Overview

The standard Helvetica font in Oolite is functional and pleasant enough, but let's face it: it's not the most exciting font to look at. Changing the font can give Oolite a completely different look and feel, and help make the game look fresh.

This page is intended to bring together all the information on the various font files available for Oolite, to display a sample of each one, and provide download links for each one.

Installation

Unlike other OXP's you can only have one font file active at any one time. To install one of these font files, download the OXP to your AddOns folders, then hold the shift-key down while starting Oolite until the spinning Cobra appears. Alternatively, you can download each of these files through the download manager. They are all listed in the "Ambience" section, and all have a name starting with "Font".

If you attempt to install more than one font file, only the last one will take effect.

Available Fonts

There are, at the time of writing, 7 different font files available for Oolite.

3D

Description: Uses the standard Oolite font but adds a subtle 3d effect to the characters.
Download v1.0: Font3D.oxz (downloaded 1683 times).

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.0	2015-03-29	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	Vincentz	Oolite BB

Dangerous

Description: (from BB post) "Seeing all those juicy Elite: Dangerous videos made me think that the skinny futuristic font (Dosis, a Google Webfont) it uses in the menus would be a nice
addition to Oolite. Font choice is, after all, a cornerstone of visual identity. It's a critical part of the overall atmosphere."
Download v1.1: FontDangerous.oxz (downloaded 530 times).

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.1	2014-06-10	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	edgepixel	Oolite BB

Dangerous Square

Description: (from BB post) "Yet another font from Elite: Dangerous into Oolite: the modern squarish one (or at least something sufficiently similar to it)."
Download v1.1: FontDangerousSquare.oxz (downloaded 2159 times).

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.1	2014-06-18	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	edgepixel	Oolite BB

OCR A Extended

Description: A complete implementation of the OCR A Extended font (http://cooltext.com/download-font-ocr+a+extended), improving on the Standalone font.
Download v1.0: FontOCRAExtended.oxz (downloaded 1240 times).

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.0	2015-06-20	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	phkb	Oolite BB

Standalone

Description: The Deepspace ships OXP used a font file based on the OCR A font. However, the license of the Deepspace OXP didn't allow it to be updated or to have the font file extracted. So user Zireael built a new font file based on the same character set and named it the "Standalone Font".
Download v1.0: FontStandalone.oxz (downloaded 1070 times).
Notes: This font file doesn't include all the characters in the OCR A font. For languages other than English the original Oolite font file characters will be used.

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.1	2015-06-24	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	Zireael	Oolite BB

Tty

Description: Based on the font 'Cella' designed by Volker Busse at http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Cella/.
Download v0.6: FontTty.oxz (downloaded 977 times).
Notes: This font file doesn't include all the characters in the 'Cella' font. For languages other than English the original Oolite font file characters will be used.

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
0.6	2015-06-20	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	Kaks	Oolite BB

Xolonium

Description: Based on the font designed by Severin Meyer at http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/xolonium. A Futuristic font with a focus on readability.
Download v1.0: FontXolonium.oxz (downloaded 1579 times).

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.0	2015-06-20	Open Font License (OFL)	Fonts	Ambience OXPs	phkb	Oolite BB