|
|
|
06-26-2020, 08:30 PM
|
#1
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,025
|
Change Reaper's FX Browser, Action List, Project Bay, etc. text font?
I hope the subject is straightforward enough. Are these text fonts changeable?
|
|
|
07-05-2020, 05:09 PM
|
#2
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 12,769
|
Yeah, are they?
|
|
|
07-08-2020, 07:29 AM
|
#3
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,025
|
Apparently not. But I changed the overall screen scale on Windows. And now I'm happy with it. Was too small before.
|
|
|
07-08-2020, 07:32 AM
|
#4
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 12,769
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by talustalus
Apparently not. But I changed the overall screen scale on Windows. And now I'm happy with it. Was too small before.
|
But doing that changes every windows app. That's a hard no here. :-(
|
|
|
07-08-2020, 06:30 PM
|
#5
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,025
|
It's all relative to where you came from. I was on a super small scale to fit a lot of windows in, and I made it a bit larger and now there's a good balance of window space and fonts being large enough to read.
However, I would still like the ability to change the Reaper system font that is hard-wired into the program.
|
|
|
07-09-2020, 01:20 PM
|
#6
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 245
|
Those are so small! I just don't get why they don't hire a UI designer, REAPER is great and the devs are geniuses but they clearly know nothing about UI/UX design. This area is so neglected that I suspect the devs take some weird pleasure in being the only DAW maker that completely disregards this. Makes them feel like they're cooler than those UI obssesed plebs or something? The day they make a proper UI will be the day every other DAW maker will s*hit their pants.
|
|
|
07-09-2020, 05:58 PM
|
#7
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,025
|
I agree that Reaper is lacking the user-friendly UI department.
I don't think it's intentional though. I just think the minds behind Reaper are very smart and mathematical, and that's why you can do almost anything in this DAW that you can dream up.
It is a functional dream.
Yes, hopefully the UI will catch up to modern standards because it sucks. But Reaper is it for me. At this point I would be so stagnant on another DAW because I've customized my entire workflow unique to me, with Reaper DAW supporting every single move so far.
|
|
|
07-15-2020, 12:10 AM
|
#8
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 3,826
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniloVillanova
Those are so small! I just don't get why they don't hire a UI designer, REAPER is great and the devs are geniuses but they clearly know nothing about UI/UX design. This area is so neglected that I suspect the devs take some weird pleasure in being the only DAW maker that completely disregards this. Makes them feel like they're cooler than those UI obssesed plebs or something? The day they make a proper UI will be the day every other DAW maker will s*hit their pants.
|
This is complete crap, I can't stand WTs work personally, but you certainly can't say he is not a UI designer, the guy has done some very high profile work, to say he knows nothing about UI/X design shows an ignorance that is unsurpassed on this forum, and trust me, that says a whole shit ton.
The UI has always been second place in favour of speed and reliability across platforms, you actually think that Justin and Schwa want people constantly saying "Your shit is ugly" no of course they don't, and when they can, they do what they can to make things prettier.
__________________
Stop posting huge images, smaller images or thumbnail, it's not rocket science!
|
|
|
07-15-2020, 05:14 AM
|
#9
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 12,769
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gpunk_w
This is complete crap, I can't stand WTs work personally, but you certainly can't say he is not a UI designer, the guy has done some very high profile work, to say he knows nothing about UI/X design shows an ignorance that is unsurpassed on this forum, and trust me, that says a whole shit ton.
The UI has always been second place in favour of speed and reliability across platforms, you actually think that Justin and Schwa want people constantly saying "Your shit is ugly" no of course they don't, and when they can, they do what they can to make things prettier.
|
How does being able to change the font size and type affect performance?
The GUI artwork that white tie does is the best I've ever seen. I don't always agree with all of the choices like the route button on the new Reaper 6 which I have been able to change easily but holy crap is he an incredible artist and designer. Proof is here.
http://www.houseofwhitetie.com/
|
|
|
07-15-2020, 10:56 AM
|
#10
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Near Chicago
Posts: 419
|
If someones idea of proper UX/UI design has anything at all to do with how "cool", "realistic","awesome","beautiful",etc... an interface is, there is a need to go read a basic introduction of the User Interface/Experience disciplines. Not to mention, when a UI designer is brought in after the product code has already been implemented for a number of years, and it is impractical to change the base that the interface is designed upon, you are restricted in what you can do. On top of that, dealing with a very active community with a different opinion from every member as to how the program should look, to meet "their needs", has to be a headache. WT has done a hell of a job, considering what he was given to work with, and continues to implement new ways(while still restricted to the underlying codebase) for every user to change the UI for themselves in many ways.
In response to talustalus's original question, I haven't dove that much into theming yet, unfortunately...but if you go here and Ctrl/Cmd-F on the page and search for "font", it looks like many of the fonts in the REAPER them are tweakable?
https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/walter/walter.php
Last edited by BeatPsychic; 07-15-2020 at 08:48 PM.
|
|
|
07-15-2020, 10:42 PM
|
#11
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Berlin
Posts: 151
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by talustalus
I changed the overall screen scale on Windows.
|
If i do that my Reaper Theme breaks apart. Is that to be expected?
Someone actually found a way to make some of those microscopic fonts bigger:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....light=high+dpi
It does sound like it's not a trivial task though.
|
|
|
07-16-2020, 03:42 AM
|
#12
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 12,769
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BeatPsychic
If someones idea of proper UX/UI design has anything at all to do with how "cool", "realistic","awesome","beautiful",etc... an interface is, there is a need to go read a basic introduction of the User Interface/Experience disciplines. Not to mention, when a UI designer is brought in after the product code has already been implemented for a number of years, and it is impractical to change the base that the interface is designed upon, you are restricted in what you can do. On top of that, dealing with a very active community with a different opinion from every member as to how the program should look, to meet "their needs", has to be a headache. WT has done a hell of a job, considering what he was given to work with, and continues to implement new ways(while still restricted to the underlying codebase) for every user to change the UI for themselves in many ways.
In response to talustalus's original question, I haven't dove that much into theming yet, unfortunately...but if you go here and Ctrl/Cmd-F on the page and search for "font", it looks like many of the fonts in the REAPER them are tweakable?
https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/walter/walter.php
|
Having coded for over 25 years, a great software design to me involves a highly intuitive, functional and efficient interface that fits my workflow and also is "cool", "realistic","awesome", and "beautiful". White Tie is great at a large number of these.
|
|
|
09-06-2022, 09:10 AM
|
#13
|
Human being with feelings
Join Date: Aug 2022
Location: Göppingen, Deutschland
Posts: 335
|
HI
It should be possible to change the FX Browsers Textheight, but Windows Magnifier is a workaround for this!
Just hit WIN + "+" or WIN + "-" to change the size, WIN + ESC to end it! (Windows 11)
Greetz
Bassman.
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 06:31 AM.
|