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Fontain is a simple Ace3 addon to give you a highly configurable set of controls over your UI's font choices.

You can set a master font for your whole UI, and even override SharedMedia so that all addons that use SharedMedia will use your selected font. Additionally, you have fine-grained control over every font in your UI, with a powerful wildcard matching system.

For example, if you want to set your master font to "Calibri", but want your tooltips all in "Bazooka", you could set the font for GameTooltip as you see fit, and all font strings that match GameTooltip* will be updated, including all derivatives. While this is often already done via inheritance, it does catch a number of outlying cases, giving you very powerful control over your UI's font selections.

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Posted Jul 13, 2009
Nvm im dumb, figured it out.

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Posted Jun 12, 2009
Awesome, that did it. Cheers.

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Posted Jun 6, 2009
I don't know if I'm just overlooking a setting or something, but is Fontain able to change the text that floats above characters/pets' heads? As far as I can tell, I've gone through every option and it's still stuck on Fritz Quadrata TT.

If not, anyone know of another mod that can?

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Posted Jun 6, 2009
Create a folder in your WoW install directory called Fonts and copy the font file you want into that folder. This will replace the character/npc/pet names. Make sure you make the folder in the World of Warcraft folder, not the Interface/Addons.

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Posted Jun 7, 2009
Thanks for the suggestion.

Hmm... World Of Warcraft\Fonts\ABF.ttf, restarted WoW, but it's still Fritz Quadrata.

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Posted Jun 4, 2009
When is this addon going to be updated again?

I would love to replace Clearfont with this but there are several things this doesn't do.

1. Change the fonts at the log in screen. 2. Names over units text isnt changed. 3. Some mods seem to not use the font selected with Fontain.

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Posted May 17, 2009
I'm running into a weird thing regarding this font. Yesterday, 05/16/09, I installed the addon and it was working great. I was playin' WoW all day, switching to multiple toons, etc.

This morning, I log into one of my toons and the chat font and ONLY the chat font as reverted back to the in-game default, but every other aspect of my UI that has writing/numbers is in the font I chose with Fontain.

I've even tried removing it and the saved variables files, then adding it back, and I get the same thing.

Is there a file I can edit manually to try to restore the chat font to the one I chose?

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Posted May 18, 2009
It appears the way to trigger this bug is when I selected Emblem as my font for everything. I then changed the size of the font in my chat window from 14 to 12. Camped out, came back in, and it was the default UI font.

So, I know how it's triggered, just not how to fix it.

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Posted Jun 2, 2009
Quote from ghettomermaid:
"This morning, I log into one of my toons and the chat font and ONLY the chat font as reverted back to the in-game default, but every other aspect of my UI that has writing/numbers is in the font I chose with Fontain."

I got the same error the day afetr installing Fountain. So I decided to create a new toon and try to replicate my problem in a single chat window (General Window)and leave my other 2 windows (Combat and Custom) without any config.

So I found that the bug happens in 3/3 tries when you change the font size in the Blizzard menu options for that specific tab. If there are more tabs (or windows) and you don't change the font size in the latter, the unmodified window will change fonts whenever you choose them in Fountain. Un fortunately I don't know how to reverse the (now font size) changes so all chat tabs will continue to be modified by Fountain.

I hope the addon Author can figure it out. As for me I'm going to try to clear the chat settings in the WTF folder to see if I get further results.

Cheers.

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Posted Mar 19, 2010
i had the same problem. chat window reset to default font after changing the size. i managed to fix the issue by resetting the chat cache file in the wtf folder. eg rename it to .old, start wow and presto the chat window is fixed. im assuming if you change the size again though the same thing will happen

\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<bliz account name>\<realm of char>\<name of char>\chat-cache.txt

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Posted May 11, 2009
A question... does Fontain allow you to change the font sizes all over the UI? I love Clearfont 3, but I'm also having the hard-crash-with-nothing-saved issue. I'm trying to put up with it but I'm having a rough time.

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Posted Apr 18, 2009
Any info on the addon Antiarc?

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Posted Apr 16, 2009
Great they've kill this font with the 3.1 update. Can anyone tell me a replacement because I cannot play WoW without it =(

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Posted Apr 12, 2009
I used Fontain to change the font size for "Number Font Normal" to 11. The change works fine initially, but if I reload the UI or restart, the size resets. If I reopen Fontain, it still shows 11, but I have to move the slider to get the size to reapply. Any suggestions? I tried changing every 14pt font in Fontain to a different size see if maybe another setting was overwriting it, but no dice. Any ideas?

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Posted Mar 24, 2009
I can't wait to change that pixelated damage number font. Gonna try this one out when I get home :)

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Posted Mar 18, 2009
From my own experiences, and now from reading the posts here...

ALL this mod needs is a touch of documentation. This setting changes this and this and this. Wouldn't even necessarily need to be the mod author, just a user like the rest of us.

Either that or a tooltip for the mod's GUI. (ie, this option will change this and this and this) Some of the descriptions seem a little ambiguous.

Other than that, this mod is fried gold.

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Posted Mar 11, 2009
Much appreciated addon, this needs no updates I hope.

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Posted Jan 23, 2009
Will this allow you to set font sizes, in addition to setting font faces?

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Posted Jan 12, 2009
I would like to change the mail font only! can I do that?

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Posted Jan 12, 2009
Nice addon, but i have same problem that i have with clearfont2. Any hints on why i cant choose "Calibri" font when playing with Ru loc pack? Playing on usual europe realms w\o loc pack is ok however.. Sorry for bad english:P

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