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Post by fly on Oct 1, 2022 21:58:22 GMT
Hi, I'm new to the forums, but I've been using this program for a few years... Anyway, I noticed that I couldn't use some special characters common on other languages when using the old mtg style (characters like Á, Ñ, Ç, Ä, Æ, etc...) and that's because the old mtg font, MagicMedieval, doesn't have those characters. So these last few days I have been editing the font and adding those characters along a few other missing like *, +, [, ], etc. (I don't know if this was posted before, but I couldn't find it, so I did it ) Now, I'm not really an artist and I haven't done it pixel perfect (and I don't intend to), so some of these characters might be lightly different from what is shown on a real mtg card, but I guess it gets the job done. I'll only update it if something is not properly visible (like a cut-out character, or something overlaps). It's still open-source, so feel free to edit it if you need/want to. To use it you have to install the font on your PC and edit the "style" file located on the "MagicSetEditor/data/<your style>.mse-style" (for example "MagicSetEditor/data/magic-old.mse-style"). Search for these lines: font: name: MagicMedieval size: 15.5
and replace it with: font: name: Magic Medieval Extended size: 15
(Notice that I decreased the font size a little bit)
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Post by sadafertey on Dec 21, 2022 10:20:19 GMT
font: name: MagicMedieval size: 15.5
and replace it with: font: name: Magic Medieval Extended size: 15
(Notice that I decreased the font size a little bit) Hi, I'm finding that this font is incorrect for the modern titles of magic cards. Is this meant to be the old one? I can't find the modern font for mtg cards anywhere, and all the google resutls are incorrect. It's definitely not "beleren" either and the github for mse doesn't specifically list anything.
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kolya
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Post by kolya on Dec 23, 2022 14:58:18 GMT
That depends on what you mean by "Modern".
New cards being printed now (since Magic 2015) do indeed use the Beleren font for the card name and typeline (and Beleren Small Caps for illustrator credit). The cards printed in the old "Modern" frame (8th edition up to Magic 2015) used Matrix, upon which the shapes of Beleren were largely based.
It should be noted that Beleren uses alternate letterforms in some contexts that MSE is not able to implement, for example the descender on a word final lower case n. This is not because it's the wrong font, but because A) MSE isn't set up to use contextual alternates (honestly most software isn't) and B) the version of Beleren most often distributed does not attempt to implement those contextual alternates (there is a version named Beleren2016 that makes the attempt but your mileage may vary depending on software and as noted MSE can't use those variants anyway.)
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Post by sadafertey on Dec 25, 2022 11:38:59 GMT
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kolya
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Post by kolya on Dec 30, 2022 15:08:16 GMT
I'm not sure what about the "J" you think doesn't match Beleren. As for the "h", that's an example of one of the contextual alternates I mentioned; lowercase "n", "m", "h", "f", and "k" have a different shape when they appear at the end of a word. Those alternate shapes aren't implemented in the commonly distributed Beleren font. Even if they were MSE isn't able to display contextual alternates, so those alternate letterforms still wouldn't appear. As mentioned, there is a version named Beleren2016 that does implement the contextual alternates, but most software (MSE included) still doesn't display the alternates. Attachments:Beleren2016-Bold.ttf (133.91 KB)
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