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Very cool to learn about this bit of history. I really enjoy how crisp and legible fonts and graphics are in that screenshot. Even the tiny terminal in the upp
by imiric 4y ago
Very cool to learn about this bit of history.
I really enjoy how crisp and legible fonts and graphics are in that screenshot. Even the tiny terminal in the upper left is very clear. Achieving that in X was always an exercise in frustration IME, involving some obscure fontconfig incantations and specific bitmap fonts. Ultimately I couldn't live without font hinting, but there's something so appealing about that crisp bitmap look.
- argulane 4y agoThat font in the screen shot looks quite similar to Terminus Font[1]. If the bitmap version does not work then there is also a TTF version[2] of Terminus that works quite well. It's one of my all time favorite fonts[3]. [1]: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ [2]: https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ [3]: https://i.imgur.com/46Qxtqa.png https://i.imgur.com/46Qxtqa.png
- cpach 4y agoThe font is called Gacha. https://hack.org/mc/fonts/ https://hack.org/mc/fonts/
- thinkingcow 4y agoI created all of the original MGR bitmap fonts by hand - a pixel at a time. For much of its life MGR ran on monochrome (1 bit per pixel) bitmap displays, that tend to look more crisp than modern anti-aliased displays