Changes the virtual signals to a larger, clearer font and adds settings and colour pickers to allow users to freely choose foreground and background colour for text, number, punctuation and other virtual signals.

I have chosen the default settings (bright white text and semi-transparent dark grey soft shadow background) for the best combination of readability, and appearance on display panels and as map markers.

Includes support for new symbols added in 2.0.34 but still works in older versions.

The first picture shows default settings in Factorio 2.0.34, the second default settings in Factorio 2.0.32, the third shows black foreground on opaque white rounded square background, with Recolour symbols enabled.

The final three pictures are comparisons of default settings, and the two different types of optional shadow mask with example colour schemes.

Settings

• Signal text colour: colour picker for text and symbol foreground colour.
• Signal background colour: colour picker for signal background. Setting alpha to zero gives the same effect as setting background style to None.
• Signal background style: choose one of four options:
  • Square
  • Rounded square
  • Soft shadow (default)
  • None
• Include non-punctuation symbols: applies colour and background to new graphical signal icons added in 2.0.34, including symbols which are partly coloured
• Include arrows: applies colour and background to arrow symbols (including new arrows added in 2.0.34)
• Recolour symbols: forces coloured signals to be displayed as monochrome using the chosen text colour
• Shadow mask overlay: choose one of three options:
  • Dots: an array of dots to simulate a subtle CRT effect on display panels. Works well with lighter colours
  • Grid: a stronger grid effect, works well with darker colours, eg orange in the example picture above
  • None (default): no mask effect
• Shadow mask colour: colour picker for shadow mask overlay. Increasing the A value (opacity) will increase the strength of the effect.

Credits

Inspired by (and font selection taken from) Large Print Signals by sparr