Originally Posted by Grymffin
You're welcome, and thank you for taking the feedback. Sorry to have taken this long to respond, life got a bit crazy.
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It's all good, things happen. I actually haven't even started on these changes for similar reasons
Originally Posted by Grymffin
If you'd like to, I could work with you on those UX things. It's just an offer from a fan of the UI package (and a long-time UX designer), take it or leave it.  |
That would be awesome. I've done a bit of research on UX principles myself, but it's a lot to take in and some things can be difficult to apply in the context of WoW.
Originally Posted by Grymffin
Either way, picking a font that supports thin/light/regular/semibold/bold weights would be a good start. I would recommend OpenSans or Roboto - both meet those criteria, and both also have narrow/condensed versions, and both are free. I personally use narrow/condensed font almost everywhere in my RealUI. It doesn't hurt the legibility and feels more tight and orderly.
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RealUI actually does use Roboto (NotoSans for CJK) for the non-pixel fonts by default in four styles: Regular (normal), Condensed-Regular (chat), BoldItalic (CBT crits), and Slab-Regular (non tooltip headers). The problem though with multiple weights is that each one needs to be included as a separate font file, which has a non-negligible impact on the download size, especially for CJK.
Originally Posted by Grymffin
I see. Is there a hard requirement that the icons look exactly the way they're provided by a 3rd party? If not, then I'd suggest changing them to monochrome flat look. The Guild, Friends, and Bags icons look good, and they're exactly what I'm thinking of. That's the look that goes best with RealUI. Again, I can offer my assistance in providing those. |
There isn't so much a requirement that the icons are the same, but rather that I don't know what icon they might use. For example, WeakAuras can provide a block with an icon. This icon is actually a custom texture of their own logo, so unless I create a new icon specifically for that addon, it simply won't mesh. Most 3rd party blocks, as well as RealUI's own currency block, use the game's built in icons. The problem here is that WoW has literally thousands of icons (17k+), it's impractical to make minimal versions of even a portion of these. I could instead desaturate these icons, but depending on what that icon is it may end up looking worse.
This is the primary reason why I made sure that the icon and label can be hidden or shown on a per block basis.