So ive been trying incredibly hard to get the font that i want (bandwidth from www.dafont.com) to work as my default font for WoW. It's not included in Clearfont2 (+font packages) or Fontabulous, and seeing as i dont know how to write my own font pack for it... yea whatever lol

Anyways... I run WoW on my C drive NOT in program files so that would explain what im about to write

C:World of Warcraft\Fonts

Inside that fonts folder i have four of the font "bandwidth" named: ARIALN.ttf, MORPHEUS.ttf, FRIZQT__.ttf, and skurri.ttf

The FRIZQT has two underscores...everything seems to be exactly the way its supposed to be, yet this font absolutley wont apply to WoW... It is a True Type Font and i know it is possible because i have seen it in WoW...

What am i doing wrong? how to i fix it so it works correctly?

Does the fonts folder have to contain anything else? or does the folder have to be something other than a folder?

yea i have those too and i was flipping s**t trying to figure out why they wouldnt work, and then i figured it out, make sure u have Clear Fonts 2 (addon) disabled, or any other addon like it, and it will work.

the letters are much clearer to read with those fonts too believe me ;)

still wont work for me.....

I even tried it on a completely different computer without any addons on that comp, and it still wouldnt work.... im beginning to think that C:World of warcraft\fonts isnt the right place to put it... does it have to go somewhere else in the WoW folder? does it need to be a .lua?

I believe that once you download Clearfonts2, you can read the readme file and it will tell you how to put any font you want in. It seemed pretty easy but I just skimmed it because I like Calibri v.1 myself. I think even more extensive instructions are available at http://www.clearfont.co.uk

Good luck!

That doesnt explain how to add your own fonts at all. It says

"If you wish to create your own font pack, the easiest method is to take a look at the existing font packs and create your own following the same style.
What occurs is that the info from the 'plugin' addon is seamlessly added to the master table of font options that CF2 uses"

that doesnt explain how to do it at all

and using a WoW fonts folder doesnt seem to be working at all either

@_@ Vague instructions crits you for 45465467 dmg

Man that page needs to be rewritten to make it a little clearer

You need to ....Ok im lost ;(

Maybe you could use sharedMedia to import your own fonts ?

Never fear - I will be playing with this tonight to see what I can come up with

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Ok looks like its not the simple for an Average Joe to do. It is not for the faint of heart. It is easy but only from a programmer's stand point.

Heres what I did

1) Download font
2) Unzip it
3) Put these fonts in their own folder in Interface/Addons/ClearFont2/Fonts/
4) Open a text document and write down the font names in there and the folder you put them in with a "\\" seperating the folder name and font name.
eg

bandwdth\\bandwdth.ttf
bandwdth\\bandless.ttf
bandwdth\\bandmess.ttf

5) Open up Interface/Addons/ClearFont2_FontPack/core.lua
6) You'll looking at manually adding an entry for your font in the main fonts list. I did this by copying one that was already there and altering it to point to where your font is in the fonts directory.

EG
{["name"]="Bandwidth",
["normal"] = fontLoc.."Bandwidth\\bandmess.ttf",
["bold"] = fontLoc.."Bandwidth\\bandmess.ttf",
["italic"] = fontLoc.."Bandwidth\\bandmess.ttf",
["bolditalic"] = fontLoc.."Bandwidth\\bandmess.ttf",
["number"] = fontLoc.."Bandwidth\\bandmess.ttf"},

7) Save this and start up WoW
8) Play around with changes in font and font size
9) Use a /console reloadui command to reload your UI to see how the fonts look

Seee ? It's a little challenging for the average joe to do. Please note that not all Fonts actually look as good in WOW. It may take some experimentation before you find one that you are comfortable with

Sorry but I could find no information anywhere about importing fonts in with SharedMedia or with using the extra font packs for ClearFont2

or you could do what it suggests you do with other addons that use their own font,

just rename some of the TFF fonts supplied already, pref ones you dont quiet like, to
backup-randomfont.tff

and then rename your font files to what the renamed .tff was origonally

just renaming no editing of lua's or toc's