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Bigger fonts for Baldur's Gate

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Hi. This is a bigger fonts mod for Baldur's Gate that I made for myself and I'd be happy if somebody else enjoyed it as well. I suppose it'll work for other IE games as well.

As you know, there are already 2 bigger font mods out there. Not to belittle the authors' efforts at all, but I never felt quite satisfied with them for 2 reasons:
1) They are way too big for my taste
2) They don't come close to the original fonts, they have no Baldur's Gate spirit in them and they're quite dull in my opinion, stylistically speaking.

So I set off on a quest to find a font that would look like BG's original one and after days of font-hunting I ended up finding one that I truly like. It has some interesting features that are akin in style to those found in the BG font.

So, enough with the preamble! Now you can chose from 3 fonts and take whichever you like most. Here's a comparison:

http://rien-ici.com/wow/bg-fontcomparison.jpg

bg-fontcomparison.jpg

 

Now, if you happen to like some other font, here they are:

Ghostdog's mod: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/52452-bigger-fonts-mod-for-baldurs-gate-2/
Corvias' mod: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/38626-bigger-fonts-for-bgiitob-and-other-ie-games/

 

If you happen to like this mod, here are 3 font sizes to chose from:

http://rien-ici.com/wow/bg-fonts1.jpg (click on this link to see the image in real size if the forum makes it smaller!!!)

bg-fonts1.jpg

 

 

Installation: as usual, put the desired fonts (it's the 3 .bam files) into the "override" folder.

 

In case you want to improve something or convert it to some other code page and whatnot, I've also included the .otf files in the rar.
Special thanks to haen for his bam generator.

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