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Title: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 10:23, 15 December 17
Hello!


Anybody has a good mono retro-based font that's suitable for terminal windows?


I was looking at http://christopoulos.users.sourceforge.net/fixed167/ but I can't, for the life of me, convert it to something windows-compatible... :(


Cheers!
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Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Bryce on 10:32, 15 December 17
Have you installed Fontforge and created a TT Font from the files?

Bryce.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 10:35, 15 December 17
Yup, all the fonts I've created (ttf/otf) are empty... no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Bryce on 10:38, 15 December 17
Latest Cygwin installed correctly? (I assume you're doing this on windows).

Bryce.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 10:41, 15 December 17
Doesn't ask for Cygwin... nor does it say anything about it on their page. Pleas tell me I haven't been hitting my head against a wall for hours on end?
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: adolfo.pa on 10:52, 15 December 17
I was able to convert it to TTF using https://github.com/ali1234/bitmap2ttf. I've attached here the result.

EDIT: after testing it more thoroughly, the result is not very good, it looks hideous :-(
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: robcfg on 11:13, 15 December 17
I was about to point out that the font is a bitmat font while ttf fonts are vector fonts.


If there's no easy way to vectorize it, you're out of luck.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 11:19, 15 December 17
Even a bitmap font could work with some programs. But of course you can trace it and produce a good ttf font, too. Which I did, with FF, and the vectors it produced had so little resolution that it looked nothing like the original :D


Anyhow, anyone knows of something else that looks good, practical and retro?
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Bryce on 12:02, 15 December 17
Quote from: Gryzor on 11:19, 15 December 17something else that looks good, practical and retro

Me! (just checked in the mirror).

Bryce.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 12:04, 15 December 17
Quote from: Bryce on 12:02, 15 December 17
Me! (just checked in the mirror).

Bryce.



How do I import you to XShell, then? 
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Bryce on 13:23, 15 December 17
Have you tried setting up a telnet session to me?

Bryce.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 13:46, 15 December 17
Got your ppk key?
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: VincentGR on 17:00, 15 December 17
Go for Putty.
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 17:19, 15 December 17
On topic? [emoji3]

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Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: ZbyniuR on 19:20, 15 December 17
There are retro fonts with Truetype version either, and some usefull links in comments part.

https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/03/27/typography-in-16-bits-system-fonts
Title: Re: Retro terminal font?
Post by: Gryzor on 07:44, 16 December 17
OH YES! I had seen those pages years ago! Atari ST Highres, here I come!


Thanks man :)
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