In case of bitmap approach, I'd say creating 3-4 different sizes would cover most needs for 100-200 PPI displays. 3 weeks of one man's work.īut creating a vector font, jiggling the vector paths and hinting may take 10x more time.Įspecially trying to achieve the detail level and feel of a finely crafted font, it may take forever.Īfter all, it's only a question of scalability. I would suggest to make the text renderer that can directly use bitmap font by specific sizes.Īn example: to create graymaps for one size, Latin set, and to optimize it's quality/readability may take ca. This would eliminate the pain of creating of fine fonts in the first place. To my understanding, to make life easier, what one want is support for grayscale bitmap fonts aka 'graymaps'. I dealt a lot with font related things, and I am curious about it.īTW, I wonder why for this specific case (terminal) one would desire a vector font? is a laborious, costly and complex subject area, but do know that we are working hard to figure out a decent story moving forward. Thanks for yor comments as well and good luck with the project!Īlas, font licensing, creation, hinting, etc. make them wider, like in CourierĪlso note that inter-line spacing affects readability, it would be nice to have an option to adjust the line spacing. center all signs to lowercase (>make it slightly bolder (doing it properly in vector actually is long and painful story).So if I would do the job, I'd do following: But regardless, glyph proportions are too wide, and the design is on the 'grotesque' side which makes it less readable than SimSun. I feel it is initially designed for monospace usage. It has slightly better glyph spacing (see "i", "l"). And most signs are centered to caps instead of being centers to lowercase letters, which is a drawback. glyhps "i", "l", "t" should have been morphed to cover more space, like in Courier. It has better glyph proportions, Times-like (a bit narrowed, which is a plus) and details, but there are some glyphs not optimized for the monospace usage, e.g. Though, both have common issue - originated from print typefaces, thus appear too thin on screen (unless theres some tricky hinting). In terms of readability, best monospaced font (preinstalled with Windows) I've seen so far is SimSun. Started using the Terminal recently and came across this interesting discussion, just want to insert my opinions.