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Offline valimaties

Genos font used...
« on: August 15, 2018, 12:27:19 PM »
Hi.
Somebody knows what is Genos font used on display?!

Thanks!
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Offline zionip

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2018, 02:51:30 PM »
Hi Vali,

The display font of Genos looks like Helvetica, but I am not 100% sure since there are fonts that are very similar to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica

Thanks,
Paul
 

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2018, 03:28:02 PM »
It's just curious Yamaha does not allow us to set the font as desired. Will it take place in the next update?
It has been four months since Yamaha released the 1.30 update for genos. Montage has just released a large 2.5 update with many value changes.
I hope that Genos will also have a breakthrough with the next update.
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Wouter1972

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Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2018, 04:02:51 PM »
Why is it so important to ne able to change the font?
 

Offline Toril S

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2018, 04:21:15 PM »
Orher fonts may be better to read than Helvetica. It would be nice to have options.
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Offline Fred Smith

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2018, 04:40:10 PM »
It's just curious Yamaha does not allow us to set the font as desired. Will it take place in the next update?
It has been four months since Yamaha released the 1.30 update for genos. Montage has just released a large 2.5 update with many value changes.
I hope that Genos will also have a breakthrough with the next update.

Don't get your hopes up. The next OS update will be useful, but I doubt most people would call it a "breakthrough".

Yamaha changed the two fonts they offer (proportional and fixed) with the Genos to make them more readable. The proportional font is more like Calibri than Helvetica, but there's not much difference.

Yamaha have typically given a low priority to the Text file function, and I don't expect that will change in the next release.

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Offline pjd

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2018, 04:50:09 PM »
It has been four months since Yamaha released the 1.30 update for Genos.

Montage seems to be on a six month update schedule. The last Genos update was April, so maybe two more months? (Assuming a six month update schedule for Genos, too.)

Probably one of the Linux or open source equivalents for Helvetica. Yamaha is probably too cheap to license Helvetica. The legal notices in the Owner's Manual has the notice: "FreeType Portions of this software are copyright © 2016 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved." Might be one place to look for the equivalent.

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Ikspeel

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Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2018, 05:33:14 PM »
We can only hope for a update
I hope for Some Color to the text i like the chords above my text in red
Easy to read
 

Offline valimaties

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2018, 01:01:01 PM »
Thanks, all.

I saw yesterday, after I post this thread, in OM that "bitmap fonts used on Genos are the property of Ricoh Co". I searched on their site for bitmap fonts, but I didn't found nothing to be like on Genos. Seems they created special for Yamaha Genos, and it was sold only to Yamaha, and not made it public.

I will try Helvetica or Calibri.

Thnx guys.

Regards,
Vali.
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Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2018, 01:30:28 PM »
Hello everyone,

I take advantage of your messages to mention that in a future update, Yamaha should allow the user of a Genos to have either the virtual keyboard in QWERTY mode, or in mode AZERTY (French keyboard).

Best Regards

Jean-Pierre 33
« Last Edit: August 16, 2018, 01:39:05 PM by Jean-Pierre 33 »
 

Offline pjd

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2018, 02:09:26 PM »
Good catch, Vali!

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Offline AlBags

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2018, 03:29:56 PM »

There's more to changing fonts that 'meets the eye'
The occupied space usually changes and this will affect available entry display areas, sometimes needing a font size change too. Maybe why Yamaha had this one made.

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Offline Toril S

Re: Genos font used...
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2018, 03:42:10 PM »
Sounds right.
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