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LCD Panel blocks have only one built-in LCD Surface, but other functional blocks have several LCD surfaces built in, for example Cockpits, Programmable Blocks, Custom Turret Controllers, Button Panels, and so on. All LCD surfaces work the same way, and have the same settings as the freestanding LCD Panel blocks. In constrast to the block variants, built-in LCD surfaces are fixed to their block "as is" and you cannot choose different screen sizes or positions. The advantage of the built-in surfaces is that they do not take up extra block space.

Tip: If you are looking for an option to display inventory capacity, radar view, planetary maps, hull integrity, and the like, alas these scripts are not available by default. To calculate and display such information, you need a Programmable Block. Advanced players can write custom scripts, and everyone can download community-provided scripts from the Workshop that can be configured to output info from the Programmable Block to an LCD of your choice.

Second, consider creating your custom image out of Monospace text, using Unicode Block Elements as pixels. Here is a great community app that converts any pictures into Block Element text: https://github.com/Whiplash141/Whips-Image-Converter/

The only disadvantage of this method is that images are blurry (pixelated), and stamp-sized pictures take up hundreds of kilobytes. The advantage is that this method works even on multiplayer servers and without mods.

The various LCD Panel blocks are a great way to add a human touch to a ship or base by displaying useful images or text. For LCD configuration and usage, see LCD Surface Options.

Note: Some functional blocks, such as Cockpits, Programmable Blocks, Custom Turret Controllers, and Button Panels, have customizable LCD surfaces built in that work the same way as LCD Panel blocks, which are also discussed in detail under LCD Surface Options.

LCD Panels need to be built on a powered grid to work. Without power, they display an "Offline" text. While powered without having a text, image, or script set up, they display "Online".

LCD Panel blocks come in a variety of sizes from tiny to huge (see list below) and are available for large and small grid sizes. Note that LCD Panel blocks all have connections on their backs, and very few also on a second side.

All LCD Panels and LCD surfaces work with the same principle: They are capable of displaying dynamic scripts, or few inbuilt static images accompanied by editable text. Access the ship"s Control Panel Screen to configure LCD Panels or LCD surfaces; or face the LCD Panel block and press "K".

A Text Panel, despite its name, can also display images. On large grid, it is rectangular and does not fully cover the side of a 1x1x1 block. On small grid it is 1x1x1, the smallest possible LCD block in game.

On large grid, you choose the Text Panel when you need something that has rectangular dimensions that make it look like a wall-mounted TV or computer screen. If you want to display images, this one works best with the built-in posters whose names end in "H" or "V" (for horizontal or vertical rotation). On Small grid, you place these tiny display surfaces so you can see them well while seated in a cockpit or control seat, to create a custom display array of flight and status information around you.

Corner LCDs are much smaller display panels that typically hold a few lines of text. They don"t cover the block you place them on and are best suited as signage for doors, passages, or containers. They are less suitable for displaying images, even though it"s possible. If you enable the "Keep aspect ratio" option, the image will take up less than a third of the available space.

These huge Sci-Fi LCD Panels come in sizes of 5x5, 5x3, and 3x3 blocks, and can be built on large grids only. These panels are only available to build if you purchase the "Sparks of the Future" pack DLC.

They work the same as all other LCD Panels, the only difference is that they are very large. In the scenario that comes with the free "Sparks of the Future" update, they are used prominently as advertisement boards on an asteroid station.

This LCD panel can be built on large and small grids. The transparent LCD is basically a 1x1x1 framed window that displays images and text. It is part of the paid "Decorative Blocks Pack #2" DLC.

What is special about them is that if you set the background color to black, this panel becomes a transparent window with a built-in display. In contrast to other LCD Panels it has no solid backside, which makes it ideal to construct transparent cockpit HUDs, or simply as cosmetic decoration.

While configuring an LCD Panel, the GUI covers up the display in-world and you can"t see how the text or images comes out. In the UI Options, you can lower the UI Background opacity to be translucent, so you can watch what you are doing more easily.

Also, it is strange that the small slope corners have a aspect ratio of 4:1 while the small slope flats have an aspect ratio of 2:1 even though they have essentially the same screen space visually. A ratio of 3:1 fits much better for both sets of small screens.

The code that generates the texture size is pretty dang weird. It swaps between what the texture size defines, the height or the width. And the way that MathHelper.Log2 does things is kind of strange too.

Thus it is very difficultto tell how wide your screen will be without plugging them into this function to see what it will spit out for the texture size, then dividing 512 by that (which is what I did above).

Has anyone else noticed that the corner LCDs had their font sizes updated? Originally, font size 2 could fill the whole screen, but now that font size is very small. Due to this, all my existing corner LCDs are very small. I think that the way this scales is better than the previous way, and it"s not much of a hassle to update them.

Also, @devs, the Lost Colony scenario (and I assume other scenarios) have been affected by this, so if they could be updated that would be helpful because I"ve had to jump around and click on the LCDs in order to read them.

Your survey’s style is important for making sure respondents enjoy taking your survey. This includes your survey’s font, colors, question spacing, and any custom CSS you’d like to add. You can also customize how your survey moves, from setting a page transition animation to automatically advancing respondents through your survey as they answer questions.

You can change the font of your questions and answer choices in the Style section of the Look & feel menu. To change your font typeface, click the Fontdropdown and select a typeface.

You can also customize the size of your survey’s font. This includes bolding the font as well as giving your survey questions and answers different font sizes.

To change the font size, type the desired font size (in pixels) into the font size box. Click the B icon to the right of the font size to bold your text.

Question Spacing determines the amount of space that separates your survey questions. You can choose spacing that is Compact, Comfortable, or Extended. Changing your survey’s question spacing can allow you to control your survey’s length. For example, decreasing the spacing between your questions makes it easier to design a survey that fits on one page.

Fonts and text color can be edited two ways: globally and locally. Global style changes are made in the Look & feel menu and affect all question and/or answer text. Local style changes are made in the Rich Content Editor for that specific question or answer choice. Local changes override global changes, so if you make a change in the Rich Content Editor of a question, you will see those settings instead of whatever is set in the Look & feel.

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Typesetting controls the readability of a text with the size, style, and spacing of its type. It’s a function of microtypography (how text is styled within a text block) and macrotypography (how content elements are arranged on the page). The more readable a text is the more easily users can understand its content. Text with poor readability turns off readers and can make it challenging for them to stay focused.

Use a comfortable reading size for body text. For most text, including body copy, use at least an effective size of 16px (font-size 5). Smaller and larger text can be used sparingly for special purposes (like headings, captions, photo credits, footnotes, data tables, or specialized UI elements).

Text with greater line height can have a longer measure. Since one of the functions of measure is to help readers move from one line of text to another more naturally, the effects of a long measure can be lessened by increasing the space between lines. Thus, text with more space between lines can have somewhat longer line length.

Line height controls the vertical rhythm and density of a block of text. It is written as a unitless multiplier of the text’s font size — for instance, a line height of 1.5 on 16px text results in a line height of 24px.

Readable text has a medium density. Strive for text that appears neither very dense nor loose. The reader typically shouldn’t notice the space between lines of text.

The space around your content elements affects the relationship between these elements. Use less whitespace to group elements and more whitespace to distinguish them from each other.

Don’t indent paragraphs, use whitespace before. While most longform print design uses indented lines to distinguish paragraphs, it’s more conventional on the web to use unindented paragraphs separated by whitespace.

Use at least 1em of whitespace between paragraphs. To properly separate paragraphs from one another, use the equivalent of one blank line of whitespace between them. Using more than 1.5em disturbs the flow of the text, and using less than 0.5em doesn’t provide enough separation.

Use at least 0.5em of whitespace between list items. List items should also be separated by whitespace, but they need less space than paragraphs because the list item indicator also helps distinguish adjacent items.

Headings should be closer to the text they introduce than the text that preceeds them. It’s important that headings are more visually connected to the text for which they’re the heading than the text of the previous section to reduce ambiguity and cognitive dissonance. Use at least 1.5 times the amount of whitespace above the heading as below it.

Very small text can use looser letterspacing. At very small type sizes, extra letterspacing improves readability. Consider using letterspacing 1 when using font size micro or font size 1.

Very large text can use tighter letterspacing. Tighter letterspacing can improve large headings. Headings of font-size 9+ could use letterspacing -1. Headings of font-size 12+ could use letterspacing -2. Headings of font-size 17+ could use letterspacing -3.

Source Sans Pro, designed by Paul D. Hunt, is an open-source sans serif typeface created for legibility in UI design. With a variety of weights that read easily at all sizes, Source Sans Pro provides clear headers as well as highly readable body text.

Merriweather, designed by Sorkin Type, is an open-source serif typeface designed for on-screen reading. This font is ideal for text-dense design: the letterforms have a tall x-height but remain relatively small, making for excellent readability across screen sizes while not occupying extra horizontal space.

The combination of thin and thick weights gives the typeface stylistic range while conveying a desirable mix of classic, yet modern, simplicity. Merriweather communicates warmth and credibility at both large and small font sizes.

Public Sans (available on GitHub) is an open-source sans serif typeface designed and maintained by the Design System and derived from Libre Franklin (also available on GitHub). It is a strong, neutral, principles-driven typeface for text or display based on a traditional American form. (The Franklin form is most noticeable in the two-story design of the “g” character.) It uses metrics similar to common system fonts for smoother progressive enhancement. It has a plain, straightforward style, appropriate for interfaces and running text. Its large x-height makes it legible at small sizes. It features a broad range of weights — and its heavier weights have tighter letterspacing than its lighter weights, meaning running text (which tends to be relatively small) is spaced more generously and headings (which tend to be relatively large) are more compact. It has tabular numerals for aligning numbers in tables.

Roboto Mono, designed by Christian Robinson, is a monospaced addition to the Roboto type family. Like the other members of the Roboto family, the fonts are optimized for readability on screens across a wide variety of devices and reading environments.

Some websites don’t pay attention to any typography rules, but if you’re making a website for your business, you absolutely should. A font that is appropriate for your brand and the tone of your website is necessary, and you also want everything to be legible and easily read.

When it comes to secondary text, make it a couple of sizes smaller than the size you chose for the body size, you people can distinguish between them. You want the hierarchy to be clear: headlines should always be bigger than the text.

An opposite to the text-heavy pages, interaction-heavy pages work better with smaller font sizes. Since these pages have hovering, searching for items, editing, and other similar features, large fonts can make them look really awkward and distracting.

We mentioned that 16px is the minimum size for body text when it comes to most websites. It is the text size browsers display by default and 16-pixel text on a screen is about the same size as text printed in a book.

Secondly, it creates a hierarchy, which is one of the most important aspects when it comes to organization. The title is the text in the biggest size (H1), while all other headlines are smaller. There’s H2, H3 and many other headlines that you can use to signify that one of them is related to another. If you look at blogs posted via WordPress, the H2 headline size is 38px, the H3 one is 25px, while the body text is 18px. The pages are text-heavy and it perfectly works out.

If the title of a paragraph and the paragraph itself have the same size or are similar in size, it will confuse the readers. Just imagine if you opened a blog post and everything was the same size. On first glance, you wouldn’t be able to know what any of the paragraphs are about, and the lack of hierarchy would cause a strain on your eyes.

We previously mention WordPress and how they do font size. H2 is the subheading that is used most often and looks the most natural when compared to the body text for one good reason: it is double its size. H2 is 31 pixels big, while the body text has the size of 16 pixels.

There’s even a rule in web design that supports this size difference and says that there needs to be an obvious difference between the title and the text. It also fully supports the use of a title font being twice as big as the body font size.

Here’s the paragraph from above with three different line spacing sizes: the first one is just right, the middle is too small, and the bottom is too big. Note how the middle one is tiring on the eyes, while the bottom just doesn’t look cohesive.

Same text, good line spacing, different line lengths. When reading the second and third example, we can feel our eyes tiring as they go from the left to the right size of the screen. With the first one, that isn’t the case.

Text size is of the utmost importance when it comes to websites. Fonts can make you or break you, so make sure to choose the appropriate styles and sizes.

16px is the minimum when it comes to desktop browsing, while for mobile browsing, the sizes around 16px will do. Use bigger sizes to increase readability and hierarchy, and make it easier for the reader so they don’t get frustrated and leave your website.

Inter is a free, open-source sans-serif typeface designed by Swedish designer/programmer Rasmus Andersson. It was designed to work well on screens as a UI font and features a large x-height. Inter is an incredibly useful typeface that works well as both a display typeface as well a body text.

DM Sans is a low-contrast geometric sans serif design, intended for use at small sizes which makes it an excellent choice for UI design. The DM Sans project was commissioned by Google from Colophon Foundry and is free for personal projects and commercial use.

Satoshi is a popular modernist and geometric sans serif font created by Deni Anggara, a Jakarta-based typeface and graphic designer. Satoshi made its debut on Fontshare in March 2021. It’s a great all-rounder font for any type of creative projects or UI design thanks to its stark contrast.

Released in November 2022, Mona Sans is a beautiful and versatile sans serif typeface by GitHub. This font family was designed alongside Indonesian studio, Degarism, and is 100% open source! It"s designed specifically for product design, web design, and print, and pairs perfectly with Mona Sans"s sidekick, Hubot Sans (see below).

Public Sans is a strong, neutral, and free sans typeface designed specifically for UI design and web design. Public Sans was Developed by the United States Web Design System and was updated to include a variable font in May 2022.

Switzer is a one-of-a-kind neo-sans serif font that was originally introduced as “Volkart” on Indian Type Foundry’s website and made its debut on Fontshare’s platform in 2021. This Latin script, neo-Grotesk font has 18 different styles, out of which nine are matching italics.

Although its usage in single-word or single-line designs can be somewhat delicate, it will ultimately depend on how you’ll implement its lowercase. Switzer is a great choice for modern UI design, particularly information-dense dashboards and smaller screen sizes, because it has a high x-height of 79%. We love it because it feels modern and ultra-premium.

Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface variant based on Colophon Foundry"s fixed-width Space Mono family (2016). Originally designed by Florian Karsten in 2018, Space Grotesk retains the monospace"s idiosyncratic details while optimizing for improved readability at non-display sizes.

Figtree is a minimal and geometric sans serif design designed by Erik Kennedy, founder of the courses Learn UX Design and Learn UI Design. It was commissioned by Google Fonts and licensed under Open Font License. Figtree is a variable font that supports 280+ Latin languages and has 7  weights. Figtree’s most distinctive letters are y, f, and t — each letter has unabashed curves, giving out a free, casual vibe to this font.

Aktiv Grotesk is a minimal 21st-century interpretation of a grotesque sans-serif typeface designed in 2010 by Bruno Maag, founder of Dalton Maag. This typeface is available for on Adobe Fonts, which means you"ll need an Adobe CC subscription to use it for personal use and commercial projects. Like Neue Haas Grotesk above, Aktiv Grotesk is available on Adobe Fonts which means it"s not technically free, but we love it so much that we wanted to include it.

It is a ubiquitous font on the web, used by everyone from Google to WordPress. I’ve even heard it referred to as the “flat design” font. I like to think of Open Sans as the new Arial.

Comparing it to other geometric sans like Montserrat, General Sans has distinctive personality and is noticeably more compact, more rational, and stricter. It saves on space without looking too condensed. This makes General Sans a great choice for UI design, particularly dense mobile app design.

Poppins is a geometric sans-serif typeface published by Indian Type Foundry in 2014. It was released as open-source and is available for free on Google Fonts for personal projects and commercial use. While Poppins cops a little slack on Twitter for being overused in UI and web design, we think it"s a great option if you"re looking for a clean geometric option.

Outfit is an interesting and minimal geometric sans-serif font designed by On Brand Investments Pty Ltd and Santiago de Chile-based type designer Rodrigo Fuenzalida. It was commissioned by Google Fonts. Outfit is the official font used by the brand automation business Outfit.io.

Hind is a sans-serif typeface collection of fonts created by Indian Type Foundry that made its debut on Fontshare in May 2022. This open-source font family is free for personal use and commercial projects and was specifically created for user interface design and legibility on screen.

Supreme is a sans serif typeface designed by graphic designer Jeremie Hornus and art director Ilya Naumoff, and was commissioned by Fontshare in March, 2021.

Lexend is a font family created by educational therapist Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup. What makes this addition special is that it was specifically designed to increase readability and improve the user experience of individuals with dyslexia and similar visual impairments.

Fira Sans was designed by Berlin-based type foundry Carrois Apostrophe and launched on Fontshare in May 2022. It contains 18 static and two variable styles.

Source Sans Pro was Adobe"s very first open source typeface. It"s a neutral and useful sans serif type family designed by Paul D. Hunt in 2012 as part of The Adobe Originals Program and in-house type foundry. It"s now available on Google Fonts and is 100% free for commercial use.

Source Sans Pro is available in 6 weights with matching italics and is also available as a variable font. It"s so popular that it even has its own Wikipedia page.

Choosing the perfect font for a project can be tricky, even if you"re a seasoned web designer. However, don’t fall into the trap of thinking every project needs an ultra-premium paid typeface (which sometimes costs thousands of dollars). Start by getting comfortable with free typefaces in the project first before deciding whether or not you need to invest in a paid typeface.

Fonts In Use is another independent searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic. It’s a great resource of real-life examples of typefaces in the wild and a real time-sink if you’re looking for something new.

MyFonts is the largest collection of fonts on the web, with over 130,000. There are some great finds in here, but it can be a bit of a chore to wade through the not-so-premium typefaces.

After many requests, we have decided to release our internal Replay Tool that we use to create our trailers. It allows you to record the movement and actions of multiple characters in the same world. You can use your video recording software of choice to capture these moments for cinematic purposes! It’s also super useful for epic screenshot creation. The tool allows you to be the director of your own Space Engineers film where you can carefully position and time different engineers with their own specific roles. We are extremely excited to see what the community will create with this!

Important: because it’s an internal tool, it has a very basic user interface and required advanced users to be used. We believe this is OK, because most video creators who would want to use it to create epic cinematic Space Engineers videos are advanced users.

There are now Steam trading cards to collect for Space Engineers! Collect a full set of cards to earn items that help you customize your Steam profile including backgrounds and badges.

There are fourteen new decorative blocks for people who want to buy them and support the development of Space Engineers, which are available on the Space Engineers Steam Store page. Within the package you will get following new blocks:

Beds can preserve characters’ inventory and toolbar while they"re offline and keeps them alive as long as there is oxygen available. Is considered to be the same as the Cryo Chamber Block, except oxygen is used from the environment. Space Engineers don’t work from nine to five, they work whenever they’re needed: day or night, during peace and war. But when it’s time to call it a day, every engineer looks forward to resting in these beds.

Standard and Corner Desks can be used as seats, which allow players to sit on the chair attached to it. Combine these blocks to produce various designs and sizes, creativity has no limitation. Whether designing new schematics or charting a fresh course to another world, desks are essential for any engineer looking to get some work done.

Kitchens are purely decorative. The kitchens in Space Engineers come well-equipped and include stunning visual details. Space Engineers overcome challenges everyday when they’re working on new planets or among the stars.

Planters are purely decorative, but they make outer space a bit warmer by housing life in a special glass container. Build your own garden on the space station. Planters not only help to liven up spaces, but the flora housed inside these capsules also remind many engineers of the homes they’ve left behind in order to explore the universe.

Couchescan be used as seats, so take your time to relax and take a break. You don’t need to always run, fly or work, you can enjoy your cozy room and enjoy the view. The last thing anyone would ever call a Space Engineer is ‘couch potato’, but who wouldn’t like to relax after a hard day’s work on this comfy furniture?

Armory and Armory Lockers can be used to decorate interiors and store weapons, ammunition, tools and bottles; both are small storages (400L), where you can keep your equipment. Space Engineers use lockers in order to ensure that keepsakes from home, toiletries and other items are kept safe.

Toiletscan be used as a seat. The latest and greatest interstellar lavatory technology has made many earth dwellers jealous of the facilities enjoyed by Space Engineers.

Toilet Seat that can be used as a seat and is fit for the creator of the legendary Red Ship; most engineers don’t want to get up after ‘taking care of business’.

Industrial Cockpits are used to control your ships. This industrial cockpit in both small and large grid versions will make your creations look much better. Offering unmatched visibility, the industrial cockpit enables engineers to experience stunning vistas while traversing landscapes and space.

Console blocks project blueprints for downscaled ships and stations, as well as display pictograms or customizable text. They are fantastic functional LCD panels where you can project your creations and show them to your friends. The sleek and crystal clear picture offered by this console allows Space Engineers to display designs and other important information.

Keen Software House needs to stay profitable in order to continue development and support of Space Engineers, and to take risks, to invest into experiments that may not pay off in the short term, and to develop innovative concepts.

A:Actually, even this update isn’t paid. The major part of this update (LCD screens, Replay Tool, new music tracks, smaller improvements) is free for everyone. Only the smaller and not mandatory part is paid - Decorative Pack, which you can purchase here.

A: To support future development of Space Engineers and other leading-edge projects we plan to work on at Keen Software House. Players kept asking us for something they could buy to support the development of Space Engineers, and the Decorative Pack is a great option for them.

A: Right after Space Engineers left early access and all hot issues were resolved. Most of the work was done by the Art team, the rest of the developers is working on other long-term updates.

A: We want more people to play Space Engineers, which means we must lower the barrier of entry. When the Space Engineers community grows, everyone benefits from this - more content on Workshop, more mods, more new ideas, more people to play with. This means that all non-mandatory features should be optional, so only those who really want them can pay for them. That’s why we decreased the price of Space Engineers, and made the Decorative Pack an optional purchase.