Spacing on custom fonts

Hi,

I designed a watch face and want to transfer the Steelfish font from the Fenix 3 to the Fenix 5. I downloaded the font from the internet and realized that the spacing between 1 and another number is extremely small, much smaller than on the Fenix 3. Is the spacing a characteristic of the downloaded font or is it a charachteristic of the Bitmap Font Generator?

Nikeow over 9 years ago

Hi - I don't have a soultion to share, but perhaps you can look at the options from BMFont, there is a "padding" option available which you can use. (Ive used it before)

Additionally - do take note that Steelfish is not Free for commercial usage, there is a need to purchase a license (I guess unless you use it for yourself it's OK)

From what I can tell (frmo a prev thread I started here), you can use Steelfish (a variation of, say bigger size / bold etc) within F3 as it is a "licensed" font on the F3, however since the F5 doeesn't have steelfish as a native font, an Embedded / app license is needed. (I read the license and I "researched" a little as I love this font and wanted to use it elsewhere but in the end, I wasn't prepared to pay USD100++ for it)

jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

You should be able to edit the .txt for the custom font and change the offsets for "1" if you can't do what you want with bmfont.