Custom fonts in Unity
How to use custom fonts in your game
My game Space Short was pretty much done, but the name itself bothered me. It looked kind of… blah.
I had a vague impression of wanting maybe a motion blur or something, but it didn’t really look the way I wanted. After some thought, I realized that I want a different font for the two words, where “Space” would be heavy and massive, and “short” would be narrower.
So I started browsing through Google Fonts. I chose them because they are free for commercial use, and have a lot of options. As I intended to use them in a Unity game directly (that is, use the ttf file) and not embed in a website, I figured that I bypass the privacy issue.
After playing with some different options, I realized that the look I like best has the same kind of font for both words, just “Space” is bold and wide, and “Short” is narrower. In short, I needed a font that had a Condensed version.
I gathered the options I liked best and did a quick in-family poll, and 1 won by a landslide:
1 is the Saira font and the Saira Condensed font. I downloaded the family and installed the font…and Unity doesn’t care.
It was surprisingly difficult to find out how to do this, as some links led to old tutorials, but in the end I found this…
