BetterFont

Replaces the game's interface font with a serif one (Times New Roman; Georgia or Liberation Serif as fallback), keeping the colour, outline and shadow of the text. No gameplay change.

• GUID: com.gumatos.betterfont
• Version: 1.0.2
• Works with: Stolen Realm v1.3.1.
• Needs: BepInEx 5 (r2modman installs it for you).

What it does

• Swaps the font of every text in the game, including screens that open later (level up, tooltips, options) and the combat texts (enemy names, dice numbers).
• Keeps the text style: before swapping, it copies the face colour, outline and shadow from the material the text was using into a per-text copy of the new font's material.
• A different shader variant is not a refusal. The serif font is built on TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field while the game's combat texts use TextMeshPro/Distance Field Overlay / Distance Field (Surface); the style properties exist in both, so the copy is best-effort property by property and the log says what the new variant does not expose.
• Keeps the original font as a fallback, so icons and symbols that Times New Roman lacks still render (no empty boxes).
• Works with timeScale = 0, which is the case of the game menus.

What it does not do

• No gameplay change — no value, damage, rule or balance is touched.
• No game file is modified and nothing is left behind when you remove the mod.
• No text is translated or rewritten — only the font face changes; the content stays the game's own.

Together with other mods

Any mod that applies a material effect (outline/halo, shadow) to a text gets the same treatment: BetterFont swaps the font and re-applies the effect on the new per-text material. With BetterCombatText installed the combat texts get both: the serif face and the halo/shadow it had applied. No mod needs to know the other, and there is no required order between them.

Only when the material carries an effect the copy cannot reproduce is that text left untouched — the safe choice — and the reason is written by name in the log ([diag] PULADO (...), with Diagnostico/LogDiagnosticoEstilo = true). There are five reasons to refuse, and they are the five the code refuses on:

1. a real face texture (_FaceTex) — the copy never transports textures;
2. a real bevel texture (_BumpMap) — same reason;
3. the GLOW_ON/BEVEL_ON keywords — glow and bevel are not transported;
4. an outline or shadow in use that the new material does not expose (_OutlineWidth/_UnderlaySoftness) — the case of a bitmap font;
5. the serif font has no material yet.

On top of those, any exception raised while checking also refuses (the doubt falls on the safe side). The check reads the effect present in the material, not the kind of text: a text nobody classified is protected too.

Configuration

File: BepInEx\config\com.gumatos.betterfont.cfg.

Section	Key	Default	What it does
Estilo	PreservarEstilo	true	Copies colour/outline/shadow from the old material into the new per-text material.
Estilo	PularTextosEstilizados	false	false: also swap the font of texts that carry their own material (or a different shader variant), re-applying their effects. true: leave those texts fully untouched (old look, no serif).
Diagnostico	LogDiagnosticoEstilo	false	Logs, per text, what was copied, what could not be copied, what is deliberately left out and the shader variant before/after. With this on, the sweep also prints one line with the new font's material and which properties it exposes.

The .cfg is read on game start: change it and reopen the game.

A key that is missing from the .cfg is not a special case. BepInEx creates the entry with the default above (false for PularTextosEstilizados) and the new path applies. There is one different case: if reading/creating the entry fails (a config file the mod cannot parse), the safe getter takes over and PularTextosEstilizados is treated as true — the conservative behaviour, with the error written in the log.

Install

r2modman (recommended): install this package in the Stolen Realm profile — the DLL goes to BepInEx\plugins\BetterFont\.

Manual: install BepInEx 5 x64 (or press "Start modded" once in r2modman to create the folders), then copy the BetterFont folder to:

%APPDATA%\r2modmanPlus-local\StolenRealm\profiles\Default\BepInEx\plugins\

The file must end up as ...\plugins\BetterFont\BetterFont.dll.

Uninstall

Delete the folder BepInEx\plugins\BetterFont\ (or untick the package in r2modman) and open the game again. The original font is back on the next start — no game file was ever changed.

Build from source

cd BetterFont
dotnet build -p:DeployToBepInEx=false

Output: bin\Debug\netstandard2.1\BetterFont.dll. The reference DLLs come from the game and are never distributed. The flag keeps the build local: without it the DeployToBepInEx target also copies the DLL into <r2modman profile>\BepInEx\plugins\BetterFont\ on the machine that built it — a bare dotnet build installs.

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Português (BR)

Troca a fonte da interface por uma serifada (Times New Roman; Georgia ou Liberation Serif se faltar), preservando cor, contorno e sombra do texto. Não altera gameplay.

Os textos de combate (nome do inimigo, número do dado) também ganham a serifa: uma variante de shader diferente (a fonte serifada é Mobile/Distance Field; esses textos usam Distance Field Overlay/(Surface)) não é motivo de recusa — as propriedades de estilo existem nas duas e a cópia é feita uma a uma. Com o BetterCombatText instalado, o texto de combate fica com a serifa e o halo/sombra que ele aplicou. Só um efeito que a cópia não reproduz mantém aquele texto intocado — são cinco motivos de recusa (textura de face, bevel, GLOW_ON/BEVEL_ON, contorno/sombra que o material novo não expõe e a fonte serifada ainda sem material; a lista completa está em inglês acima) — com o motivo escrito no log (ligue LogDiagnosticoEstilo). Instalação, configuração e desinstalação estão nas seções em inglês acima.