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Dear Bioware team, especially dear interface designers,
my name is Bastian and I am a graphic designer from Berlin who loves games ans also typography.
So first, Dragon Age Inquisition is a beautiful and super game! I like it very much and I´m looking forward to perfect fantasy gaming evenings.
But…
I really want to dive into the Story and the side quests and so on, but I don’t want to read the long texts written in capital letters!
Why you wrote all the running texts in capital letters? Also explanations and so on.
No book is printed in only capital letters and that has a special reason.
For year and years, we learned to read words and texts. We, the human, recognize the form of the word, sometimes even text phrases.
The upper and lower case helps us to read faster, better and more fluently.
The upper and lower case helps us to read faster, better and more fluently.
In Dragon Age Inquisition I feel like a little kid, which tries to decrypt the words, letter by letter…
(By the way, I´m sitting 3 meter in front of an 50“ TV and I have good eyes).
(By the way, I´m sitting 3 meter in front of an 50“ TV and I have good eyes).
It´s proven, from any professional, that texts written in upper and lower case are much better to read!
Dragon Age Inquisition has a plenty amount of little stories, wich are designed by committed writers, who want the gamer to read their stories.
With the capital letter many gamer will skip the texts and so won´t read them.
Thats sad.
The universe of Dragon Age is so interesting and the stories should get the attention they deserve.
This problem also affects to Quest texts, explanations and so on.
Really, I don´t understand, why the short words, like back or save or what ever, are written in upper and lower cases (good to read, but if i only must read one word and this word or function I learned by heart, I don’t have to read it anymore, I know its there, I know its form) and on the other side long texts are written in upper case. I want to read them, but I can´t read them like a book or a magazine. Only upper case text is anoying and hard to read.
Ok, my suggestion, please add a function in the options, where you can switch between text in only capital letters or text with upper and lower case (or fix it with upper and lower case texts).
It would really improve the reading!
Perhaps you can add a function to scale the text size?
Technically it should be no problem, because most of the texts have a scroll bar, so you have to scroll more if the text is getting longer or bigger.
Perhaps you, Bioware, had some reasons (TV settings, PC, xbox one and so on),which I can’t imagine, but I think you can do it much better!
A lot of games have problems with the right typography, but Dragon Age Inquisition did prominent things wrong (excuse me executive designer 
).
).So, I really hope, that some designer will answer me or my suggestions will be taken seriously.
I am interested in a perfekt game with a perfekt Graphic Design!
Graphic design or typography should have more attention in developing games, especially at a big company like Bioware!
What do other gamers think about the typography?
thx, best reguards bastian
(Xbox One)
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