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I love the history/nostalgia in this font, but after opening a Gnome Terminal with the .ttf font, its unusable. The characters are full of horizontal 'scan line

I love the history/nostalgia in this font, but after opening a Gnome Terminal with the .ttf font, its unusable. The characters are full of horizontal 'scan lines' which look neat when zoomed in but make the font fade to almost nothing on a black background. Ironically the sceenshot in the story for the terminal shows solid characters.

Sharlin 13y ago
You just have to emulate the blurring inherent in a CRT display :)
- rsync 13y ago
  see also: scanline generator device: http://arcadeforge.net/SLG3000/Scanline-Generator-SLG3000::12.html http://arcadeforge.net/SLG3000/Scanline-Generator-SLG3000::1... (or a XRGB device) ... lots of retro gaming folks use these to emulate CRT artifacts on an LCD panel ...
- cjensen 13y ago
  Here's the most complete crt emulator I've seen: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emulator/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emu...
- Theodores 13y ago
  You also have to emulate an analog signal. With a digital display pixels can go from on to off just like that, however, I doubt that an analog signal really does go from on to off in a perfect 'square wave'. Even then those coils in the electron gun have things like hysteresis to contend with. As for that blurring, on green screen monitors there were no rgb arrangements in the phosphor, it was continual. The blurring was for persistence in a time when refresh rates were orders of magnitude below 100Hz. There was also the small matter of interlacing. Kids today have no idea what that is but it was standard for low refresh rate applications such as a VT terminal. All considered a drop in font is not really up to the job, even if really well designed.
aaronem 13y ago
I've had the same problem with this and other "real glass TTY"-type fonts, and have yet to understand why the font authors don't provide a version without the scanlines, for use with terminal emulators which don't go so far as to emulate a CRT display.

Sharlin 13y ago

You just have to emulate the blurring inherent in a CRT display :)

rsync 13y ago
see also: scanline generator device: http://arcadeforge.net/SLG3000/Scanline-Generator-SLG3000::12.html http://arcadeforge.net/SLG3000/Scanline-Generator-SLG3000::1... (or a XRGB device) ... lots of retro gaming folks use these to emulate CRT artifacts on an LCD panel ...
cjensen 13y ago
Here's the most complete crt emulator I've seen: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emulator/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emu...
Theodores 13y ago
You also have to emulate an analog signal. With a digital display pixels can go from on to off just like that, however, I doubt that an analog signal really does go from on to off in a perfect 'square wave'. Even then those coils in the electron gun have things like hysteresis to contend with. As for that blurring, on green screen monitors there were no rgb arrangements in the phosphor, it was continual. The blurring was for persistence in a time when refresh rates were orders of magnitude below 100Hz. There was also the small matter of interlacing. Kids today have no idea what that is but it was standard for low refresh rate applications such as a VT terminal. All considered a drop in font is not really up to the job, even if really well designed.

aaronem 13y ago

I've had the same problem with this and other "real glass TTY"-type fonts, and have yet to understand why the font authors don't provide a version without the scanlines, for use with terminal emulators which don't go so far as to emulate a CRT display.