Well, Gotham is gone now, but why is Montserrat so tiny?
For reference, here’s how it looked before:
TextChatService now looks awful in any place made before May 2024. This is not a solid drop-in replacement without any correlated property changes.
You can’t realistically expect everyone to manually update TextChatService in all of their places, so the chat is just going to look awful in a large amount of games now.
It’d be nice if the automatic Gotham-to-Montserrat conversion could also automatically tune some related text properties so that there wouldn’t be such a drastic change in appearance.
For anyone who’s interested, these are the new TextChatService property defaults:
ChatWindowConfiguration.FontFace: Gotham Medium > Builder Sans Medium ChatWindowConfiguration.TextSize: 14 > 18
ChatInputBarConfiguration.FontFace: Gotham Medium > Builder Sans Medium ChatInputBarConfiguration.TextSize: 14 > 18
BubbleChatConfiguration.FontFace: Gotham Medium > Builder Sans Medium BubbleChatConfiguration.TextSize: 16 > 20
“Builder can be used off the Roblox platform for digital promotions of your creations incorporating that User Generated Content.” Umm… it can be used for anything long as its advertising your content from Roblox and you aren’t false advertising.
This has literally ruined like 25+ of my game files that use Gotham ssm and it will probably take me a few days to convert to a half decent font. Roblox really just loves to screw over their developers
The new font looks awful in my UI. It forcefully converted everything to Montserrat, and the boldness was converted incorrectly, making everything one level thinner than it should be
Arial was a classic, that is just absurd to remove it! Classic games that are centred about Arial or ones that have Arial (Old) in them will be changed badly!
the new montserrat font is just disgusting . get gotham back or a better replacement. your own font is awful and montserrat is like the name says a rat in disguise
Gotham was my go-to font for almost everything. Montserrat is fine, I like it, but why remove Gotham? Just why? I was so confused when I typed ‘G’ on the font selector and couldn’t find it.
This change is disappointing! I love those fonts, and have been using them all the time.
If it’s something to do with licensing, then… come on, you’re a billion dollar company (I think), just purchase the license for the rights.