games that use non-monospace numbers. nothing like watching them jitter and flail around because the '1' is thinner than the others (or, god forbid, they're all unique sizes)
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in reply to @xkeeper's post:
I know of an MMO that every few seconds randomly shifts the kerning between characters on screen - even ones currently being displayed - to throw off bots doing OCR
there was some indie game doing the rounds a while back about building up your dream arcade starting from a laundromat and the laundry machines had 7-segment fonts that did this
oh my god that also aggravates me even more
Like yeah I totally remember having LED clocks as a kid and “11:11” would look so thin compared to “10:00”, yep variable width LED digits is not breaking suspension of disbelief /s
My text layout system automatically normalizes the width of digits to fix this, since most fonts get it wrong
remembering just now that when i was making a game in a custom C++ engine i made an override of the text class of the graphics lib i was using where it would determine the widest glyph out of alphanumeric symbols in the font, and then when the string is turned into quads it would use that width instead of each character's width
(i would draw changing numbers with that class separately from other static text that used the regular class)
honestly it's just something all game engines should have, it's so simple and it means you don't need a fixed-width font...
I’m so glad I’m not alone in this.
I play rhythm games a lot. So when the digits don’t have fixed spacing, a score of 911,111 looks smaller than 900,008 for example.
in the endless invisible part of Tetris Friends Survival, the line count stops rendering all digits that can't fit in the box. so if you survive into the 5 digits, it goes something along the lines of ...1110, 1110, 1111, 11111, 1111, 11113, 1111, 1111, 1111, 11117, 1111, 1111, 1112, 1112, ... and 71111(? something similar) is the last time you get to screenshot it with full precision