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On Wednesday 04 February 2015 09:19:20 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> A bit of a tangent... do you know of any font editors that will |
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> convert a font to "double-wide"? E.g. convert 8x8 to 16x8, 8x12 to |
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> 16x12, or 8x16 to 16x16. |
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I think that would be a bit of a tall order, unless you're happy to |
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accept glyphs all having double-thickness vertical lines. |
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> The reason I ask is because I have a laptop with a 1280x800 screen. |
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> Back in the old days, the native VGA display would've been 80 columns |
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> across. But now with framebuffer drivers, the straight text display |
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> is almost unreadable 160 columns across. |
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Yes, that's what started me off on my hunt for acceptable fonts. This |
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desktop screen is 27" and 1920x1080: evidently designed for 1080p video. |
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> Going to the Sun 12x22 font gives me 107 columns across, but that's |
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> still not good. |
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That one has serifs, doesn't it? Serif fonts work well in print with its |
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much higher resolution, but IMO they're not a good idea on screens. |
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> That's why I'm looking for 16-pixel-wide fonts, either freely |
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> available, or try to generate them from existing 8-pixel-wide fonts. |
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From my own experience I can only suggest terminus-font; you might find |
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an acceptable compromise there as its heights range from 12 to 32 |
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pixels, so I suppose its widths will range from 6 to 16. Or perhaps some |
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font will call itself [something]-wide. |
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There's also the problem that most work in typeface design these days |
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(not counting the print world) seems to be in graphical settings -- X |
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etc. -- so anything new would need some sort of conversion for use in a |
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console. |
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Good luck in your hunt! I expect you'll need it :-( |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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