What's a good font face to use as a general "theme" for a game?

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#1

So I’ve been using GothamMedium for the majority of my UI so far, but when editing the new chat UI and looking at other games for ideas, I’ve noticed just how many games are using Fredoka One for literally all of their UI.

I feel like using Fredoka One screams “generic simulator” but there are games like Super Golf that use it really well and it’s one of the only fonts that can be used in all places and still look visually pleasing. My question is mostly: Does using a single font for almost all of the text in your game matter that much? And what font faces are candidates for this?

My game, using GothamMedium (there isn’t much UI in the game right now but here’s just an example…)

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Good example of Fredoka One (Super Golf)

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Bad example of Fredoka One (some random simulator)

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#2

It really depends on the style of your game, you wouldnt want a non scary game to have a ominous looking Ui or font.

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#3

Use Arial for everything. It’s the best font by far.

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#4

GothamMedium looks fine, it fits the UI very well according to me

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