Text font #

Half-Life uses two fonts in-game:

• The console font - used by chat messages and console message at the top of the screen (in the developer mode). In Featureful this font is also used by subtitles and journal. This is usually a font that can be used with utf-8 texts, but it can’t be rendered semitransparent.
• The credits font - used by titles.txt and game_text messages. This font supports only 8-bit encodings (ISO 8859-15 in Steam Half-Life) and it’s rendered in additive mode (i.e. it can be semitransparent).

Fonts are defined in the resource/TrackerScheme.res file (you can copy it to your mod directory from valve/ folder in anniversary version of Half-Life or from public/ folder in steam_legacy version). The "EngineFont" entry allows configuring size for the console font depending on the client screen size. The "Legacy_CreditsFont" entry allows configuring the credits font.

Example:

		"EngineFont"
		{
			"1"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"18"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"480 599"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
			"2"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"18"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"600 767"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
			"3"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"22"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"768 1023"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
			"4"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"30"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"1024 1199"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
			"5"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"36"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"1200 1439"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
			"6"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"48"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"1440 2559"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
			"7"
			{
				"name"		"Trebuchet"
				"tall"		"72"
				"weight"	"600"
				"yres"	"2560 6000"
				"dropshadow"	"0"
			}
		}