Scratchaddons: Change Sora font to Roboto

Created on 29 Dec 2020  路  16Comments  路  Source: ScratchAddons/ScratchAddons

I don't like the Sora font.

I just don't like how it looks. Period.

My solution is NOT to replace it. Intsead, add an option in _More Settings_ to change the font.

This would be also good for accesibility, as Roboto is much easier to read.

design enhancement

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Well, fortunately Scratch Addons is open source so it shouldn't take you long to replace the font yourself, even if we decide not to implement a setting for this.

This would also fix #1116 right?

Yes, we cloud change the font to one that supports Unicode. But I want to change it because Sora is somewhat unreadable, especially in Romanian, where we use 膬, 芒, 卯, 葯 and 葲.

@Secret-chest Can you elaborate on how those characters become unreadable?

Yes, we cloud change the font to one that supports Unicode. But I want to change it because Sora is somewhat unreadable, especially in Romanian, where we use 膬, 芒, 卯, 葯 and 葲.

This should be resolved by #1159

Well Montserrat or Product Sans should be much more readable and pleasing to the eye.

@samuraininja360 We can't use Product Sans because it isn't open source.

Well Montserrat or Product Sans should be much more readable and pleasing to the eye.

Nope. This is not what I want. We need a standard font, not one that looks very cool, so everybody is happy. I can't edit the extension because I want to get updates

@Secret-chest Can you elaborate on how those characters become unreadable?

They become unreadable at small sizes.

I can't edit the extension because I want to get updates

Making a little script that periodically runs git pull and replaces the font shouldn't be that complex.

They become unreadable at small sizes.

Can you please post screenshots as examples? Also, it's not clear enough if we're still talking about these non-English characters.

Product Sans

As @jeffalo said, it is a private font, but I think what you mean is Google Sans. Product Sans is for logos only.

example
This.
The font is somewhat unreadable (for me) because of the lines and it simply looks ugly.

Yes especially at small sizes like the Filtreaza

example
This.
The font is somewhat unreadable (for me) because of the lines and it simply looks ugly.

Which lines?

example
This.
The font is somewhat unreadable (for me) because of the lines and it simply looks ugly.

Which lines?

  1. "Credit pentru: Richie Bendall, apple502j"
  2. "Mesageria Scratch"
  3. "Filtreaz膬 Toate Recomandat Beta"

I think it would be a good decision to add a second usable font. Sora is apparently hard to read in some languages.

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