are there any options for pixel-perfect no-anti-aliasing fonts like windows did in 1995 on a 2025 #linux system
@mavica_again Apparently, yes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts#Bitmap but it seems like the ones listed that still work (otb) are all fixed width.
@madewokherd why do linux users hate perfectly aliased bitmap fonts
this is why we can't have 1024x768 computers anymore, every font takes half my screen
@mavica_again Would this be acceptable? I can't tell how it looks because I'm on a high DPI screen and it's really tiny.
@madewokherd the regular looks fine but the bold's kerning is all over the place, which is what i remember from the last time i tried this
given i'm not on gnome or kde i'm just asking for trouble for going off the beaten path and not having that window, either
@madewokherd yeah someone else was telling me about OTB fonts, i just need to find a great big archive of them now
@mavica_again The way most the AUR packages seem to do it is by downloading BDF fonts and using a program to convert them. The one in my screenshot is in xfonts-75dpi.
@mavica_again This is the loop I saw one using:
for f in *.bdf; do
if grep -Fq 'FAMILY_NAME "' "$f" 2>/dev/null; then
family_name="$(grep -F 'FAMILY_NAME "' "$f")"
family_name="${family_name%\"}"
family_name_otb="$family_name (OTB)"
sed -i "s/$family_name/$family_name_otb/" "$f"
fi
fonttosfnt -b -c -g 2 -m 2 -o "${f/bdf/otb}" "$f"
done
@mavica_again Seems squished in some places. I was hoping it would use the bitmaps that I was pretty sure were in Arial, but I guess not.