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