Japanese font is a bit slim, and difficult to read

[sujiniku]

At Japanese mode, the Japanese font is somewhat slim on this game, therefore I'm hard to read the words in this game at Japanese mode. Can you change font thick a bit?

[dorkster]

A lot of this has to do with the small resolution of flare-game (640x480) combined with a small font size (14 pt). GNU Unifont looks much more crisp at 16 pt, but some of the text becomes too big to fit where it is placed.

I tried looking at using another font for Japanese, IPA Gothic. It's slightly thicker than Unifont, so many of the Hiragana/Katakana are easier to read. Unfortunately, this results in many of the Kanji being unreadable blobs. I'm not sure if there's a good solution here.

[sujiniku]

My idea is I make new japanese font date of 14x14size by myself hands such as below:

For examole,The "物品" (it means the inventory in Japanese),

// formt \12345678901234 1-------------- 2-------------- 3-------------- 4-------------- 5-------------- 6-------------- 7-------------- 8-------------- 9-------------- 0-------------- 1-------------- 2-------------- 3-------------- 4--------------

letter: 物 date:

--------------
--------------
-*-*-----*----
-*****--*****-
*--*---*-*-**-
---*----*-*-*-
-*****--*-*-*-
---*----*-*-*-
---*---*--*-*-
---*--*--*--*-
---*--------*-
--------------
--------------
--------------

letter: 品 date:

--------------
--------------
--------------
----******----
----*----*----
----*----*----
----******----
--------------
--****--****--
--*--*--*--*--
--*--*--*--*--
--****--****--
--------------
--------------

In Japan, commonly-used kanji (it is called "Jyouyou kanji") is only about 2000 letter. therefore, if I have enough time and cooperation such as advices and programming, I may be able to make fonts data of Japanese 14x14 size.

[sujiniku]

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