maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

are there any options for pixel-perfect no-anti-aliasing fonts like windows did in 1995 on a 2025 system

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Esme Povirk

@mavica_again Apparently, yes wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts but it seems like the ones listed that still work (otb) are all fixed width.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

@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

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Esme Povirk

@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.

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Esme Povirk

@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.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

@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

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Esme Povirk

@mavica_again How about this?

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

@madewokherd yeah someone else was telling me about OTB fonts, i just need to find a great big archive of them now

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Esme Povirk
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@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.

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Esme Povirk

@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
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