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Ah, okay, there is a bit of a difference, just not quite the difference I was hoping to see, I suppose. Now that I look closer at the font, it kinda reminds me of the 'Asap' font, which also has rounded edges, but distinguishes lowercase 'L' with a short curl at the bottom. It seems Varela Round also lacks a true italic and bold, which Asap has.

Of course, it'd be too much to ask for a font change for this game. You'd have to go through all the dialog boxes and make sure the text doesn't run out of space and start drawing outside the box everywhere in the game, change all the spacing and sizing of things (or at least make sure they work with the new font), and all that crap.. So don't worry, I'm not at all trying to say you should change anything just because I have niche font preferences.

But I will say that Asap is an excellent font that you might want to consider for your next project :3

Though, thinking about it, I'm not sure if Asap has a kerning pair table.. I know it has an OpenType GPOS table that has both kerning pair and kerning classes, but that might not work with RenPy. I did some extra Googling, and it seems RenPy version 8.2+ can, but it might require doing special shenanigans with the code to enable the Harfbuzz shaping engine.

Actually, I just read a bit more, and it looks like the releases with Harfbuzz support aren't released yet. Latest is 7.6 and 8.1, and the Harfbuzz support is being added to 7.7 and 8.2. So, that's something to look forward to, since it'd let you use fonts that have advanced typographical things like ligatures, class-based kerning, and so on.

Looks like Varela Round also includes some of that, as typing in things like 'Muffin' on that Google Fonts page has the 'ffi' turn into an 'ffi' ligature. So that's something to look forward to in games made with future versions of RenPy :D

Edit: Oh yeah, another good rounded font that I somehow forgot about, and would be quite fitting for anything furry-themed, is Eurofurence. Though it's generally considered to not be so great for large blocks of text.

I'm on Linux, and I noticed that the accessibility settings includes an option to change the font to DejaVu Sans. Personally, I'm not a fan of DejaVu Sans, because the uppercase 'i' and lowercase 'L' are too similar. I wanted to check to see how the default font stacks up to it by comparison before I started playing, but on that settings page there's no change between the two. Maybe the settings page just doesn't use the font being talked about? But it does change if I switch it to OpenDyslexic, so that seems unlikely.

It might also be that it's using my system's fonts, and I don't happen to have the font it wants to use as the 'default' choice, but I do see a file called 'fonts.rpa' in the game's directory, so I'm really uncertain of that.

After some more testing, it seems likely to be a bug in the Linux version of the standalone flash player. What happens is that if I launch the swf from a file browser, it loads the flash player at some default resolution, reads the height of the viewport and sets it as what 100% should be, loads the flash file, changes the resolution so the viewport matches the flash file's specs, and then reads the width of the viewport and sets it to what 100% should be.

The result is that the flash player's default window height determines what Flash thinks the height of the viewport should be, but it correctly reads the width of the viewport from the flash file.

If I load the flash file, and then click in the little 'URL bar' and hit 'Enter' to re-load the flash file (with the viewport already resized correctly), it works fine.

It seems like the current version of the flash file doesn't set the viewport dimensions correctly. The standalone flashplayer wants to squish it down, with a lot of blank, empty, black space at the bottom of the screen.. Unless I make the window taller. It seems to want a viewport of 768×563 to avoid scaling everything with ugly nearest neighbor scaling.