Bigger Fonts mod for Baldur's Gate 2

Posted 03 November 2011 - 12:19 PM

This mod offers bigger fonts for Baldur's Gate 2 SOA/TOB , tutu/BGT. The fonts will be used in the dialog window, floating text, item descriptions and Journal. Recommended for resolutions higher or equal to 1024x768.

Screenshots :





To install this mod, simply extract everything into your main BG2 directory and run the Setup-BG2-Bigger-Fonts.exe. If you want to use the widescreen mod then the fonts should be installed AFTER the widescreen mod. To uninstall, run the executable again and choose uninstall.

Many thanks to haen for his Font Bam Generator. These fonts are made for the ENGLISH VERSION, they may work on other languages like French, German or Spanish, but it's not guaranteed. Don't ask me to support other language versions or provide different sizes, I won't bother with this mod again. I'm just offering it to you since I had it for a long time in my hard drive.



EDIT:
Some nice people have provided fonts that fully support their Language versions. Just extract these into the override folder of your main BGII directory AFTER you have installed the Bigger Fonts Mod.

• Sephiroth 1311 has created an excellent ITALIAN font. Which can also be used for the FRENCH version and possibly other Latin languages.
• djc has provided a POLISH font, only for the dialog window. If you want the original fonts for the floating text and item descriptions, simply delete toolfont.bam and floattxt.bam from the override directory.
• DenimTornado has provided Russian fonts with Cyrillic support.

(If Winrar refuses to open the rar file, use 7zip. Alternatively you can download a zipped version from here)

Attached Files

•  BG2-Bigger-Fonts.rar   570.64K   17977 downloads
•  Fonts-ITALIAN.rar   25.83K   3288 downloads
•  Fonts-POLISH.zip   12.22K   2270 downloads
•  Fonts-RUSSIAN.zip   40.27K   1283 downloads

Edited by ghostdog, 03 April 2013 - 01:03 PM.

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Posted 03 November 2011 - 01:02 PM

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Posted 12 November 2011 - 05:39 AM

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Posted 15 November 2011 - 05:52 AM

Thanks, but it seems like this doesn't work very well for my Italian version (special chars are not shown).
I've sent you a PM.

EDIT: Thanks to ghostdog's help, I managed to make a bigger font compatible with the Italian version of Baldur's Gate 2. He'll probably add them to the main post in a matter of hours.

Edited by Sephiroth 1311, 08 July 2012 - 03:28 AM.

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Posted 20 November 2011 - 09:18 AM

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Posted 25 November 2011 - 06:27 AM

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 02:09 AM

Just as an additional notice :

- The Italian fonts should be used for French version of the game, too (Accentuated characters like à/è/é/ê are absent from the english version of the fonts. The file should probably renamed to "Latin fonts" instead, or something like this ?
- These fonts might be a tad too big for a 1280x1024 display : See below screenshot.

Ghostdog, if you ever create another slightly less big version of these fonts, I'll shall offer you my hypothetic first born child.

Otherwise, GREAT JOB

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Posted 03 January 2012 - 02:12 AM

Oh, and if you can explain to me how to create a new version of these fonts, I'll be happy to do these by myself
I'm a former developer, so I should be able to handle this

Edit.: Nevermind, found out how to create fonts using the tool that was provided to you

Edited by Aranthys, 03 January 2012 - 02:57 AM.

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 07:32 AM

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Posted 29 January 2012 - 07:41 AM

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Posted 06 February 2012 - 04:18 AM

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Posted 13 February 2012 - 07:01 PM

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Posted 19 February 2012 - 03:19 AM

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:33 AM

I finally succeeded in making some new fonts. These are much smaller than the fonts included with this mod, yet still quite legible at 2560x1440 resolution which is what I use.



Sorry for the huge image. To use these, install the mod in the first post (after Widescreen mod) and then just put the files in your override, replacing what's currently there.

Try them out and tell me what you think. Also, let me know if you have any suggestions for better fonts to use. I did try to find the original BG text font but was unable to do so, so I chose some other nice looking fonts (IMO). Please tell me if you know the name of the original, though.

Attached Files

•  fonts.7z   11.08K   1279 downloads

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 12:23 PM

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Posted 08 March 2012 - 01:26 PM

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 05:50 AM

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