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Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font
- NikkiA 17y agoRetro is nice, and I certainly remember my time with 220s and 320s fondly (not so much my time with 240s, I was forced to use one of those all day for a couple of months, and the flyback transformer gave me a massive headache every day)... However, I'm not sure I can give up my Inconsolata/Consolas in emacs :)
- peregrine 17y agoGreat font.
- pronoiac 17y agoIf you like this, you might like the curved screen of glterminal: http://ldopa.net/2006/01/14/glterminal/ http://ldopa.net/2006/01/14/glterminal/
- sp332 17y agoA point is a measure of length used in typography, it's defined as 1/72 of an inch. Many programs default to assuming a 96 pixel-per-inch monitor. The font is supposed to be 20 pixels high, so you have to specify 20 * (72 / 96) = 15 points (or some multiple) for non-blurry rendering. My Windows laptop, however, has a higher DPI setting - 125% higher than normal, so I need 12 points for 20 pixels.
- jrockway 17y agoIsn't this the exact use case for bitmap fonts?
- sp332 17y agoYeah, I think the point to this project was just to bring a classic TTY font into TrueType because it's a cool idea. I don't think there's a good reason for it :)
- barrkel 17y agoWell, on Windows, WPF (and hence Visual Studio 2010) can't render text in a raster font, so if you're used to using a bitmap font, you need to convert it to TrueType or OpenType.
- zokier 17y agoNext step is to properly hint it so that it will scale to different sizes. I kinda like the font, but its too big for real use. Kinda silly to vectorize the bitmaps when the font can currently still be used in one size.
- nrr 17y agoActually, if we were still using CRTs at obscenely high resolutions, this font would be perfect. I used it for ~10 minutes on a 21-inch Sony Trinitron running at 2048x1536@75Hz, and I couldn't do much but marvel at it. It was truly beautiful. It's obviously a toy font at this point, though, so I doubt I'd be able to get real work done with it, so I've gone back to Consolas. Oh well.
- rbanffy 17y agoBTW, does anyone have a 3278 font? The ones I have lack the distinctive 6s and 9s. I also thnk numbers were a couple pixels taller than letters... Anyone here with access to a real 3278? A 2250 or 2260 would also be very, very cool.
- mmphosis 17y agoThe Ultimate Apple II Font: http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/apple2.shtml http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/apple2.shtml