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It sounds like you understand moving fonts from one deck to another, but you're looking to bring a font in from outside Decker? As in like a regular Windows TTF or whatever font?

Fonts in Decker are kind of their own format, that's not really transferable/convertible from other formats. So unfortunately you can't really just import in from an existing font, you'd have to write some sort of conversion tool. And I think a lot of modern fonts are vector-based which doesn't quite work with Decker's pixel thing.

I know Internet Janitor did do some stuff with converting over some old Windows 3.1 era fonts into Decker, and they're at https://beyondloom.com/decker/goofs/msfonts.html

If you don't mind pixelling in a font manually though then there's the fontedit.deck in the examples folder.

Let me know if I'm totally off-base, if you're just looking to move fonts from another deck let me know and I'll see if I can find some doco on that.

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Thank you for your reply and the link! You interpreted my rambly post correctly. This is more than enough to get me started. When I played your one game "Get out and run some errands" I noticed that you were using different fonts and I just couldn't understand how you got them there.  Now I feel like I have a better understanding and some resources to go through. Thanks again!

Oh yeah those fonts came from the msfonts deck that I linked!