I’d be much more fine with this than whatever they decided to choose. It’s at least close to what Gotham is.
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While I think this is great, I dislike the fact that we are being forced to change it. Having it be a new font without having to deprecate Arial and Gotham would definitely give some more options. I would be more open to this if there was more customization to the font other than just how thick the text is. But currently, I have mixed feelings about this.
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Very informative, thanks for the video 
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New font, cool, blah blah… BUT SINCE WHEN HAVE WE BEEN ABLE TO INSTALL OTHER FONTS 
What was wrong with Gotham and Arial?
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Since this:
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You could always install other Fonts, but only Roblox could upload them.
The other thing you could do is to use ImageRectOffset and ImageRectSize to have a “spritesheet” with letters… but dunno how good that would be, and use fonts from images with the most horrible conversions that exist that converts text and places it to images.
Won’t this change break 90% of the games who commonly use Gotham for their UI? Giving us only a month to catch up isn’t enough time for developers to redesign their games,
Would the font be compatible with Japanese?
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oh you have a point, it would break if the font sizes of the font itself, not the… font size property…
but if the replacement is really really alike, in their size, then maybe it should be fine 
Okay builder font is good but:
What is the reason for removing these fonts? I see no logical reason to remove it. There is no such ridiculous idea as removing the most used fonts in the world.
Why don’t you give them a choice? There should also be the ability to select the old font. If this feature does not come, I will have to install a new extension. Roblox interface without add-ons has become terrible.
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Yeah I’d be quite happy with FigTree, never heard of it before, looks nice
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Where do y’all come up with this stuff? I don’t think that it would be unreasonable to say that Gotham in particular is one of your more popularly used fonts (I would surely hope that you obtained analytics on this move, but it wouldn’t surprise me if not!), and it comes across as an incredibly asinine move to remove support for it. In addition, it’s an extremely popular font outside of Roblox too, and it seems crazy to remove native support for it & tell people good luck, this other one we have is… close enough.
Is this a case of Roblox not being able to cough up the cash to pay the license fee??? If there’s enough money to spend on other insane programs within the business that have reaped no reward, of which plenty can be named, there is surely enough money to license Gotham for another year!
Incredibly frustrating move, with what appears to have been no public consultation despite a myriad of feedback programs existing, with what I would regard as little time to swap over to using a different font.
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My UI looks fantastic in Gotham. If I can’t even use the provided font for anything outside of Roblox, at least don’t remove the good ones. I totally welcome new fonts, but if we can’t do anything with them, why bother.
Roblox’s site already looks good in Gotham. Honestly though. At least keep the font.
If it’s another licensing issue, oh please. You’ve been using Gotham for years. How did that happen.
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Don’t remove gotham please. It’s in a very large portion of my games. And im also concerned about this license for the new font. Specifically for marketing use.
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I can already tell a bunch of people will jump on the usual Roblox update hate train here, but I have to admit that I like the new font. It looks clean and gives the platform more visual identity.
As for the people complaining, no games will “break”; the post clearly states that places where the font isn’t replaced manually will simply have theirs changed automatically to a similar looking one.
It was also likely an issue with licensing fees, which is why I’m assuming they’re depreciating Gotham and Arial in the first place
The only concerns I have are about the licensing, especially in regards to usage for marketing purposes, so I hope that’s going to be cleared up
TLDR; The new font actually looks pretty nice!
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I have used the Gotham font style for almost every single one of my UI projects and this really feels like another careless change with a benefit to try and cover it up. Why not keep the two fonts? After all, having more fonts provides more opportunities in UI design than limiting it. Also, what would happen to the stuff that is already Gotham? Will it just be replaced with a default font or something?
I will admit though, the new font looks pretty good.
Licensing costs. It costs Roblox money to license Gotham
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You can just mod it back in, it’s not that hard. (Altrough it will only be visible to you as it’s a local change)
Like people have said, it costs money for Roblox to keep those fonts in.
(Idk if this is allowed, but if you want the Gotham font back, here is it. Just drop it in your fonts folder)
fonts.zip (253.4 KB)
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Hey roblox why not add custom font feature?
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