Fontain - WoW AddOns

Fontain is a simple Ace3 addon to give you a highly configurable set of controls over your UI's font choices.

You can set a master font for your whole UI, and even override SharedMedia so that all addons that use SharedMedia will use your selected font. Additionally, you have fine-grained control over every font in your UI, with a powerful wildcard matching system.

For example, if you want to set your master font to "Calibri", but want your tooltips all in "Bazooka", you could set the font for GameTooltip as you see fit, and all font strings that match GameTooltip* will be updated, including all derivatives. While this is often already done via inheritance, it does catch a number of outlying cases, giving you very powerful control over your UI's font selections.

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JCinDE Oct 16, 2014 at 23:56 UTC - 0 likes

This can be fixed for 6.0.2

Replace line 66 with these two lines:

local _, _, objType = pcall(v.GetObjectType,v)
if meta and meta.__index and type(meta.__index) == "table" and meta.__index.GetFont and objType == "Font" then

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Steakneggs Dec 18, 2013 at 08:07 UTC - 0 likes
So I know this project is marked abandoned, but it is still superior to most other font mods out there and worked until patch 5.4.2. I did some research and testing and determined the problem. It looks like the new in-game store added a protected frame for authentication, and any attempts to run code on that generates an error that stops the mod in its tracks.

Changing line 63 of Fontain.lua to the following worked for me:
if type(v) == "table" and k ~= "AuthChallengeFrameText" then
That will cause the mod to skip the problem frame
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Tanthalus Sep 17, 2010 at 08:29 UTC - 0 likes
This is superior, still, to clearfont2/3.

Couple it with sharedmedia
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mothandras Jun 04, 2009 at 16:52 UTC - 0 likes
When is this addon going to be updated again?

I would love to replace Clearfont with this but there are several things this doesn't do.

1. Change the fonts at the log in screen. 2. Names over units text isnt changed. 3. Some mods seem to not use the font selected with Fontain.
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seremina May 11, 2009 at 23:16 UTC - 0 likes
A question... does Fontain allow you to change the font sizes all over the UI? I love Clearfont 3, but I'm also having the hard-crash-with-nothing-saved issue. I'm trying to put up with it but I'm having a rough time.
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excatcher Jan 13, 2009 at 01:29 UTC - 0 likes
Nice addon, but i have same problem that i have with clearfont2. Any hints on why i cant choose "Calibri" font when playing with Ru loc pack? Playing on usual europe realms w\o loc pack is ok however.. Sorry for bad english:P
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saltorio Oct 25, 2008 at 03:33 UTC - 0 likes
Great job, Antiarc. Not sure what's happening with ClearFont2, so I figured I'd give Fontain a try. I love it.
Please, keep up the wonderful work!