what's some good bitmap fonts anyway
is there an archive of the win9x system ones i can download without having to spin up a vm to extract them from
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@lafp ohh these are cool!
i think what i mean by "bitmap fonts" though is more "ttf that has pixel hinting so i can use it without antialiasing" - something that modern linux seems to no longer support or care about (if i try to force antialiasing off everything looks broken regardless of if the font has proper hinting)
@lafp oh yeah, just whatever works at multiple sizes and looks pixel-perfect. windows 98 could do it, i'm surprised linux (today) can't
so much for making old hardware usable again! (big fonts on 1024x768 are a pain)
@mavica_again yeah, I definitely used to have good TTF without antialiasing or subpixel rendering back then. just nice crisp fonts. I don't think they were TTF, though, but whatever X11 font format was available back then