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A few observations: * The repository code is 8 GIF files, not actually a font per se, nor even the source code for one (despite the name of the ZIP archive).

by JdeBP 6y ago

A few observations: * The repository code is 8 GIF files, not actually a font per se, nor even the source code for one (despite the name of the ZIP archive). The only actual font here is a binary file in an asset attached to a release tag, and it's only provided in one font format. * Not all systems will work with this, as the idea of font fallback is not universal. The built-in terminal emulators in the FreeBSD kernel and in Linux only load one font at any given time. (I've written a user-space terminal emulator with the goal of providing a user-space workalike for those terminal emulators, which does have font fallback mechanisms, but kernel built-in terminal emulators forego the ability to have multiple fonts and a lot of other things for obvious reasons.) * 200 by 200 is excessive for some uses. Not everything is a GUI program talking to a display server with a font manager on the side. The font tools for Linux's built-in terminal emulator limit glyph bitmaps to 32 by 32, for example. (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/574583/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/574583/5132) * Life gets even more fun when one has to deal with the ("East Asian") widths of undefined code points. (-:

seritools 6y ago
I would guess/hope the GIFs are only for display in the README.md and the actual glyphs are vector-based like a regular font (so the 200x200px problem shouldn't be one)
- JdeBP 6y ago
  We can only take them at their word, when the downloadable file hyperlink is entitled "Source Code (zip)" and it hyperlinks to a ZIP file of these GIFs, that these are supposed to be the source glyphs. And these GIFs are roughly the same sizes as the supposedly extracted glyphs at https://github.com/altmind/AAPL-last-resort-glyphs https://github.com/altmind/AAPL-last-resort-glyphs . Nothing this detailed will fit into 32 by 32 , vector-based or no. There simply aren't enough pixels for the words and numbers on the borders. Also notice that the significanty smaller "last resort glyphs" at http://unicode.org/charts/lastresort.html http://unicode.org/charts/lastresort.html are not the same as what is purportedly in this font.
  - etbebl 6y ago
    No, I'm fairly sure that was not their intent. It says at the bottom of the readme: NOTE: The sources and build scripts may be added after Unicode Version 14.0.0 has been released (2021), and as time and resources permit. So this repo doesn't have the source currently, despite what it may say earlier in the readme. I'm assuming the TTF file in the release is the actual font, and the "Source code" zip is just an automatic archive of what's currently in the repository.

by JdeBP 6y ago

seritools 6y ago

I would guess/hope the GIFs are only for display in the README.md and the actual glyphs are vector-based like a regular font (so the 200x200px problem shouldn't be one)

JdeBP 6y ago
We can only take them at their word, when the downloadable file hyperlink is entitled "Source Code (zip)" and it hyperlinks to a ZIP file of these GIFs, that these are supposed to be the source glyphs. And these GIFs are roughly the same sizes as the supposedly extracted glyphs at https://github.com/altmind/AAPL-last-resort-glyphs https://github.com/altmind/AAPL-last-resort-glyphs . Nothing this detailed will fit into 32 by 32 , vector-based or no. There simply aren't enough pixels for the words and numbers on the borders. Also notice that the significanty smaller "last resort glyphs" at http://unicode.org/charts/lastresort.html http://unicode.org/charts/lastresort.html are not the same as what is purportedly in this font.
- etbebl 6y ago
  No, I'm fairly sure that was not their intent. It says at the bottom of the readme: NOTE: The sources and build scripts may be added after Unicode Version 14.0.0 has been released (2021), and as time and resources permit. So this repo doesn't have the source currently, despite what it may say earlier in the readme. I'm assuming the TTF file in the release is the actual font, and the "Source code" zip is just an automatic archive of what's currently in the repository.