diff --git a/MLEM/Font/GenericFont.cs b/MLEM/Font/GenericFont.cs
index 0f01fea..0e82361 100644
--- a/MLEM/Font/GenericFont.cs
+++ b/MLEM/Font/GenericFont.cs
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ namespace MLEM.Font {
             this.DrawString(batch, text, position, color, rotation, origin, scale, effects, layerDepth);
         }
 
-        public string TruncateString(string text, float width, float scale, bool fromBack = false) {
+        public string TruncateString(string text, float width, float scale, bool fromBack = false, string ellipsis = "") {
             var total = new StringBuilder();
+            var ellipsisWidth = this.MeasureString(ellipsis).X * scale;
             for (var i = 0; i < text.Length; i++) {
                 if (fromBack) {
                     total.Insert(0, text[text.Length - 1 - i]);
@@ -58,8 +59,8 @@ namespace MLEM.Font {
                     total.Append(text[i]);
                 }
 
-                if (this.MeasureString(total).X * scale >= width)
-                    return total.ToString(fromBack ? 1 : 0, total.Length - 1);
+                if (this.MeasureString(total).X * scale + ellipsisWidth >= width)
+                    return total.Remove(fromBack ? 0 : total.Length - 1, 1).Append(ellipsis).ToString();
             }
             return total.ToString();
         }
diff --git a/Sandbox/GameImpl.cs b/Sandbox/GameImpl.cs
index f374f8f..1e722f1 100644
--- a/Sandbox/GameImpl.cs
+++ b/Sandbox/GameImpl.cs
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ namespace Sandbox {
                 font.DrawString(this.SpriteBatch, "Right Aligned\nover multiple lines", new Vector2(640, 200), TextAlign.Right, Color.White);
                 font.DrawString(this.SpriteBatch, "Center Aligned on both axes", new Vector2(640, 360), TextAlign.CenterBothAxes, Color.White);
                 this.SpriteBatch.Draw(this.SpriteBatch.GetBlankTexture(), new Rectangle(640 - 4, 360 - 4, 8, 8), Color.Green);
+
+                this.SpriteBatch.Draw(this.SpriteBatch.GetBlankTexture(), new Rectangle(200, 400, 200, 400), Color.Green);
+                font.DrawString(this.SpriteBatch, font.TruncateString("This is a very long string", 200, 1), new Vector2(200, 400), Color.White);
+                font.DrawString(this.SpriteBatch, font.TruncateString("This is a very long string", 200, 1, ellipsis: "..."), new Vector2(200, 450), Color.White);
+                font.DrawString(this.SpriteBatch, font.TruncateString("This is a very long string", 200, 1, true), new Vector2(200, 500), Color.White);
+                font.DrawString(this.SpriteBatch, font.TruncateString("This is a very long string", 200, 1, true, "..."), new Vector2(200, 550), Color.White);
                 this.SpriteBatch.End();
             };
         }