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How do I implement variation in font letters, like handwriting?

I can use a sprite sheet to automatically use a custom font. What I'd like to do though is to have several versions of each letter, such that the letters can be varied and more natural looking (a la ...
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How do I enlarge a SpriteFont without it becoming blurry?

How do I make spritefonts not blurry when I make them bigger? I have searched Google and haven't found any useful answer.
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UI mockups to the code

My UI designer has made a lovely photoshop PSD of the UI and everything pretty. The biggest problem I'm having is converting some of the more elegant fonts used into something renderable in-game. Is ...
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Can't load vector font in Nuclex Framework

I've been trying to get this to work for the last 2 hours and I'm not getting what I'm doing wrong... I've added Nuclex.TrueTypeImporter to my references in my content and I've added Nuclex.Fonts ...
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How to deal with variable size font in XNA 4.0

After searching for a while, I found no way to draw vector/scalable fonts in XNA 4.0 (which would be perfect...) and I am currently in a bind about how to render fonts for my game. In the game I use ...
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Some help converting XML to LINQ (Also, Kerning Bitmap fonts)

I'm currently trying to devise a way to kern bitmap fonts in XNA 4.0. The two easiest ways I've found are to use either BMFontGen or BMFont. I chose to work with BMFontGen, as it was made ...
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XNA C# How to draw fonts in different color

I'm doing a simple chat system with XNA C#. It is a chatbox that contains 5 lines of chat typed by the users. Something like a MMORPG chatting system. [User1name] says: Hi [User2name] says: Hello ...
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How do I get the height of an XNA SpriteFont?

I have some text in a spritefont and I need to know the height in pixels. I would have thought that MeasureString() would get me close to it, but it seems to just be about length.
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How do I get beautiful small text in XNA without using external libraries?

In XNA, the spritefont technology is horrible. Nuclex does the job so much better, but I don't want to have any external references, and I'm nearly done with my game. When using fonts like Sansation ...
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XNA - just a few more characters accepted in a SpriteFont

I have a SpriteFont in XNA, which has the standard 126 characters that are usable. However i would like to use the "ಠ" symbol in the game. So is there anyway of adding just a few more symbols that ...
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2answers
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Showing Unicode in XNA on Windows Phone 7

I am creating an application which downloads names from server. These names can be any unicode language text which I need to render in XNA on WP7. The biggest problem I see here is WP7 xna system ...
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Font library for XNA

Is there a free type library kind of implementation available for XNA? I wish to use it on WP7, so it should be a managed code. I know can alternatively use spritefont, but I wish to know if other ...
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XNA: SpriteFont question

I need some help with the SpriteFont. I want a different font for my game, other than Kootenay. So, I edit the SpriteFont xml, i.e: <FontName>Kootenay</FontName> or ...