Fonts

Morrowind .fnt fonts

Morrowind uses a custom .fnt file format. It is not compatible with the Windows Font File .fnt format, nor compatible with .fnt formats from any other Bethesda games. To our knowledge, the format is undocumented and no tools for viewing or editing these fonts exist.

OpenMW can load this format and convert it on the fly into something usable (see font loader source code). In OpenMW 0.32, an --export-fonts command line option was added to write the converted font (a PNG image and an XML file describing the position of each glyph in the image) to the current directory.

TrueType fonts

Unlike vanilla Morrowind, OpenMW directly supports TrueType (.ttf) fonts. This is the recommended way to create new fonts.


 * To replace the primary "Magic Cards" font:
 * Download the Pelagiad font by Isak Larborn (aka Isakar).
 * Install the openmw_font.xml file into resources/mygui/openmw_font.xml in your OpenMW installation.
 * Copy Pelagiad.ttf into resources/mygui/ as well.
 * If desired, you can now delete the original Magic_Cards* files from your Data Files/Fonts directory.


 * You can also replace the Daedric font:
 * Download OMWAyembedt by Georg Duffner.
 * Install OMWAyembedt.otf into resources/mygui/.
 * Add the following lines to openmw_font.xml:

            
 * This font is missing a few glyphs (mostly punctuation), but is complete in the primary glyphs.
 * If desired, you can now delete the original daedric* files from your Data Files/Fonts directory.


 * Another replacement for the Daedric font is the Oblivion font by Dongle.
 * Install the Oblivion.ttf file resources/mygui/.
 * The openmw_fonts.xml entry is:

   <Property key="Resolution" value="50"/> <Property key="Antialias" value="false"/> <Property key="TabWidth" value="8"/> <Property key="OffsetHeight" value="0"/>  <Code range="32 34"/> <Code range="39"/> <Code range="44 46"/> <Code range="48 59"/> <Code range="63"/> <Code range="65 90"/> <Code range="97 122"/> <Code range="172 173"/> <Code range="255"/> <Code range="376"/> <Code range="894"/> <Code range="8211 8212"/> <Code range="8216 8217"/> <Code range="8220 8221"/> </Codes> </Resource>

Bitmap fonts

Morrowind .fnt files are essentially a bitmap font, but using them is discouraged because of no Unicode support. MyGUI has its own format for bitmap fonts. An example can be seen by using the --export-fonts command line option (see above), which converts Morrowind .fnt to a MyGUI bitmap font. This is the recommended format to use if you wish to edit Morrowind's bitmap font or create a new bitmap font.