Number 1 Moth Girl

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Number 1 Moth Girl @Her-Lady-Weaver9/14/2023, 4:20 AM

JP @vectorpoem

DeusEx.txt 🤖@deus-ex-txt9/14/2023, 3:52 AM

UNATCO TROOP

I heard Anna got killed. Amazing.

#bot #deus ex

JP @vectorpoem9/14/2023, 4:05 AM

new bot: DeusEx.txt

i added cohost support to an existing bot of mine, DeusEx.txt. follow it if you want to see a random line from Deus Ex once a day!

i don't think it's possible to use a particular web-based font from cohost CSS, so you'll just have to take my recommendation to install the font "Slicker" on your system, for it to look 92% more Deus Ex-y. (DX1's actual in-game dialog font was a hand-made pixel rendition of Slicker, but the main menus are stock Slicker and pretty much all the letter forms are familiar.)

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evie @ewie9/14/2023, 4:20 AM

don’t forget to have a font stack so it doesn’t just display as times as a fallback. i’d recommend something like futura, geneva, sans-serif or something idk web safe fonts are messy

JP @vectorpoem9/14/2023, 4:24 AM

it's "font-family: Slicker, sans-serif"

evie @ewie9/14/2023, 4:27 AM

weird. it’s definitely times for me on my phone.

JP @vectorpoem9/14/2023, 5:10 AM

have a look now, i think for the first few posts i was omitting the hyphen in "sans-serif".

evie @ewie9/14/2023, 5:26 AM

good now! thanks!

@sarksus9/14/2023, 7:23 AM

installs slicker

I am immediately happy with this decision.

Bekoha @bekoha9/14/2023, 1:40 PM

Deus Ex didn't use Slicker for its menus but rather the original and much more popular font that Slicker seems to imitate, Handel Gothic
A line from Deus Ex's "Engine.u" file referencing "FontName="HandelGothic BT""

Cian @SeshohoCian9/14/2023, 1:43 PM

oh, as i was typing out my question you went and answered it. haha, good to know anyway.

JP @vectorpoem9/14/2023, 2:30 PM

ah yes, i found this out after making the post and looking for other common names for the font. Slicker just happens to be what i knew it as for many years.

Cian @SeshohoCian9/14/2023, 1:43 PM

Is "Slicker" what the font is internally referred to in the games files? Because it (and "Aero", mentioned by @leilei elsewhere in the comments here) appear to be direct derivatives of Handel Gothic (1965). I ask just because documenting Handel Gothic's many appearances in video games has become something of a hobby of mine (https://www.backloggd.com/u/WitchCian/list/games-that-use-handel-gothic/) and this would be a nice little factoid to have

Bekoha @bekoha9/14/2023, 2:35 PM

Great list! FRD's Second Sight can be added to it as it shares the design of ammo counters with TimeSplitters 2 including specific ammo textures and the usage of Handel Gothic, additionally it reuses the font on at least the sniper rifle rangefinder
https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/a69ebab0-eca1-4a8c-ba60-6319fa417b81/11550_20210709225317_1.png
https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/5269a3e5-f7ed-46a1-ba7b-88f4393740fd/11550_20210709222441_1.png

Colin McRae Rally 3 uses the font in the logotype for one of its courses, though there are 7 other courses so it's not as prominent but it is shown front and center
https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/5fb2c949-5788-4cdb-ba05-4f9db29fef42/13220007434174595072_20230105202911_1.png

And the most tenuous of these, Dead Space 2 uses it in some background textures so probably not enough to be actually mentioned in that list but I still think it's neat
https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/3cb53f1e-da04-4f03-8cbd-8ab67282f0cb/47780_20221024215738_1.png

Cian @SeshohoCian9/14/2023, 3:29 PM

wow! thanks for the spots! Second Sight is one that definitely crossed my mind but its absence in Timesplitters Future Perfect made me forget about it.
The Dead Space 2 example is also very funny. It feels authentically cheesy in a way for this space station to be advertising itself like its EPCOT.