Fonts
There are many Fonts used in RuneScape Classic. None of them were actually created by Jagex, but instead, existing freely available fonts were converted to JF (Jagex Font) format.
In-game main font
[edit | edit source]The main font used to render all in-game text (other than in CAPTCHAs) is a bitmap variant of Arial without anti-aliasing. The game uses bold variants of font sizes 12, 13, 14, 16, and 24, as well as a regular variant for size 11.
For most of the game interface, size 12 bold Arial is used. However, for certain components that need to be small and unassuming, such as the chat tabs, size 11 regular Arial is used instead.
Examples
[edit | edit source]An example of size 12 bold Arial is shown here: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghjklmnopqrstuvwxyz 01234567890!@#$%^&*(){}[];'\:"
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The Report abuse screen uses size 12 bold Arial for the explanation, size 14 bold Arial for the categories "Honour", "Respect", "Security", and size 11 plain Arial for each reporting reason. -
On the sleep screen, size 24 bold Arial is used for the "You are sleeping" and "Fatigue: xx%" text. Size 16 bold Arial is used for the Fatigue instructions and random ZZZ text. The sleep word itself is sent to the client as an RLE image file. -
The combat style selector uses size 13 bold Arial for each of the 4 style types. Size 13 bold Arial is also used for hit splats, and in the bank & shop interfaces. -
Size 24 bold Arial is used on the "Oh dear! You are dead...!" screen as well.
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CAPTCHA fonts
[edit | edit source]After 2003, players were required to solve a CAPTCHA to reduce their Fatigue to 0%. Various off-the-shelf fonts were used for the CAPTCHA, primarily from two foundries, Typodermic and Pizzadude. Notably, the fonts by Pizzadude are "free for personal use", meaning they were possibly used in violation of their license. Since the majority of fonts are from Typodermic and public domain, it is possible that the Pizzadude fonts were included by mistake.
CAPTCHAs are streamed as pre-rendered run-length encoded image files from the server. The actual font files are stored only on the RuneScape Classic server, but most likely were converted to JF format (in a similar way to the in-game font Arial, i.e. bitmap without anti-aliasing) at size 30. It is most easy to tell that they are exactly size 30 by looking at where the horizontal lines are rendered in the font Abduction 2000.
| Font | Author | Sample |
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| Arial (possibly included by mistake; would be the default font Java would display for a missing font) | Monotype | 
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| Abduction 2000 | Pizzadude | |
| Agent Orange | Pizzadude | 
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| Anglepoise Lampshade (older Anglepoise variant) | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Arnprior | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Astron Boy | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Baveuse | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Beat My Guest | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Berylium | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Biting My Nails | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Budmo Jiggler | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Bullpen | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Charles in Charge | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Chinese Rocks | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Coolvetica | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Dirty Bakers Dozen | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Duality | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Eden Mills | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Edmunds | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Ethnocentric | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Fluoride Beings | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Foo | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Good Times | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Green Fuz | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Highway to Heck | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Home Sweet Home (outline variant) | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Hurry Up | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Joystix | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Junegull | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Karma Future | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Kicking Limos | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Lady Starlight | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Mail Ray Stuff | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Malache Crunch | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Minya Nouvelle | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Miserable | Pizzadude | 
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| Mob Concrete | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Mufferaw | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Naftalene | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Nasalization | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Orange Kid | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Planet Benson | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Plasmatic | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Primer Print (apples variant) | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Primer Print | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Pupcat | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Rafika | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Relish Gargler | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Rina | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Saved by Zero | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Sexsmith | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Shlop | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Spongy | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Squealer | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Street Cred | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Tork | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Union City Blues | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Venus Rising | Typodermic Fonts | |
| Vinque | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| Wild Sewerage | Typodermic Fonts | 
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| World of Water | Typodermic Fonts |
Trivia
[edit | edit source]- Internally at Jagex, the main font used throughout the game is called Helvetica. Yet, the font used is Arial, which can clearly be identified by the appearance of the capital G letter. While bitmap versions of Helvetica can be distributed without paying licensing fees (unlike the scalable versions), potential advantage of using Arial over Helvetica is its inclusion in Microsoft Windows for free.
- A size 12 regular Arial and a size 20 bold Arial font are created by the game client on load, but those fonts are never actually used.
- Since a hidden update on 8 April 2004, the main font used throughout the game was no longer included in the game client. From then on, the client tried to find the Arial font on the player's computer. While this had no impact on players on Windows computers, which often contain an accurate version of Arial, this decision resulted in rendering issues for players on other systems, such as Unix, as another sans-serif font would be picked instead.
- The font used in the logo of RuneScape Classic, Choc, has since become very popular in signage for Asian restaurants.[1]
References
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