Fonts

The Font used in RuneScape Classic is a bitmap variant of Arial without anti-aliasing. The game uses bold variants of font sizes 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 24, as well as regular variants for sizes 11 and 12.

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.

Example

The font used most in RuneScape Classic is size 12 bold Arial without anti aliasing. An example can be seen here. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghjklmnopqrstuvwxyz 01234567890!@#$%^&*(){}[];'\:"

CAPTCHA fonts

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 from the server.

Font	Author	Sample
Arial (possibly included by mistake; would be the default font Java would display for a missing font)	Monotype
Abduction 2000	Pizzadude
Agent Orange	Pizzadude
Anglepoise Lampshade (older Anglepoise variant)	Typodermic Fonts
Arnprior	Typodermic Fonts
Astron Boy	Typodermic Fonts
Baveuse	Typodermic Fonts
Beat My Guest	Typodermic Fonts
Berylium	Typodermic Fonts
Biting My Nails	Typodermic Fonts
Budmo Jiggler	Typodermic Fonts
Bullpen	Typodermic Fonts
Charles in Charge	Typodermic Fonts
Chinese Rocks	Typodermic Fonts
Coolvetica	Typodermic Fonts
Dirty Bakers Dozen	Typodermic Fonts
Duality	Typodermic Fonts
Eden Mills	Typodermic Fonts
Edmunds	Typodermic Fonts
Ethnocentric	Typodermic Fonts
Fluoride Beings	Typodermic Fonts
Foo	Typodermic Fonts
Good Times	Typodermic Fonts
Green Fuz	Typodermic Fonts
Highway to Heck	Typodermic Fonts
Home Sweet Home (outline variant)	Typodermic Fonts
Hurry Up	Typodermic Fonts
Joystix	Typodermic Fonts
Junegull	Typodermic Fonts
Karma Future	Typodermic Fonts
Kicking Limos	Typodermic Fonts
Lady Starlight	Typodermic Fonts
Mail Ray Stuff	Typodermic Fonts
Malache Crunch	Typodermic Fonts
Minya Nouvelle	Typodermic Fonts
Miserable	Pizzadude
Mob Concrete	Typodermic Fonts
Mufferaw	Typodermic Fonts
Naftalene	Typodermic Fonts
Nasalization	Typodermic Fonts
Orange Kid	Typodermic Fonts
Planet Benson	Typodermic Fonts
Plasmatic	Typodermic Fonts
Primer Print (apples variant)	Typodermic Fonts
Primer Print	Typodermic Fonts
Pupcat	Typodermic Fonts
Rafika	Typodermic Fonts
Relish Gargler	Typodermic Fonts
Rina	Typodermic Fonts
Saved by Zero	Typodermic Fonts
Sexsmith	Typodermic Fonts
Shlop	Typodermic Fonts
Spongy	Typodermic Fonts
Squealer	Typodermic Fonts
Street Cred	Typodermic Fonts
Tork	Typodermic Fonts
Union City Blues	Typodermic Fonts
Venus Rising	Typodermic Fonts
Vinque	Typodermic Fonts
Wild Sewerage	Typodermic Fonts
World of Water	Typodermic Fonts

Trivia

• Internally by Jagex, the font is called Helvetica, but Arial 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 hidden update on 8 April 2004 modified the game client to no longer include its own fonts. Instead, fonts are used from the player's computer. On many Windows computers, an accurate version of Arial could be found, but on other systems, such as Unix, another sans-serif font would be picked instead, resulting in rendering issues.