Alright, I jumped the gun. Took me a while and a couple of tut videos but I figured out how to make the resource pack, adjust what I want and zip it up for mc. Thanks for getting me started guys.
I don't think i'm doing it right. I tried making a zip file of the asset folder of the 1.8 folder and replaced the folder and putting it in the resource folder but MC is not registering the new zip file. I have liteloader and forge installed as well. Did I make the resource pack wrong?
Can you direct me to where it is specifically? nothing is coming up in the search when I look in the .minecraft directories. To be clear, I'm not talking about the font in a different resource pack, but rather the ascii file in the default texture pack