Would having icons for move category and type also work?
Possibly. There's
just enough room in the palettes for the colors, I think, and some BG tiles can be moved to the "font" tile area to make room for the icons' tiles. Here's a mockup of how the interface could look (with a six-character type name to show how many tiles it would need):
And the other category icons:
I like this suggestion more than I expected to. Keeping the tile palettes up-to-date might be a pain in the neck, since the Pokémon back sprite uses palette 0 and the icons don't; the color updates for the status icons are already kind of hacky. Still, this lets all the move info fit neatly in three lines, and looks quite good. It may even be possible to use the icons on the move screen:
Edit: Sample type icons:
Hello, please consider making HM forgettable, move deleter is met pretty late in game. I don't want to waste my move slot in my only water pokemon in team.
HM moves are unforgettable (and unreleasable) because if they weren't, you could get yourself stuck somewhere permanently. Like by Flying to Cianwood and then releasing everyone who can learn Surf or Fly, throwing away your Poké Balls, and saving the game.
I've tried to make up for this by making HM moves more powerful. Also, in 3.0 Flash and Rock Smash are just TMs. Of the six HMs, Surf and Waterfall are already good, I've buffed Strength, Cut, and Fly, and Whirlpool is rarely needed anyway.