This is a revival of my request from [link]. Especially with the new interface system, it would be nice if game designers were more capable of controlling the fonts used in the various interface elements. Most of my favorite fonts must be downloaded before they're available to one's system, which means that using something flashy might get picked up by a small margin of users, and the others are left to gaze at..what, Georgia? Arial? Setting fall-back fonts is a decent counter-measure in design, but sometimes there just isn't a decent enough alternative.

I'm not sure what the semantics are for caching fonts that are not installed in one's system for rendering, but if that method proves not feasible, then perhaps fonts could be packaged with a game's resources, and clients might be prompted as in the "a new skin is available," except for something along the lines of "A font is available with this skin that is not installed on your system. Install this font?" This would give game designers the feeling of security that users will be able to easily view their skin as intended (no tracking down ancient fonts) if they want to, and those that wish to do without can suffer the boredom of Times New Roman or some other standard font.

Hiead