fontforge
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux (by fontforge)
bitmap-fonts
Monospaced bitmap fonts for X11, good for terminal use. (by Tecate)
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21 | 9 | |
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7.5 | 0.0 | |
7 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
C | Shell | |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fontforge
Posts with mentions or reviews of fontforge.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.
- Fontforge: Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
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Broken bitmap fonts on Linux with FF112?
You should be able to convert .fon files using https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge .
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Vertically centering glyphs
Fontforge doesn't currently have a way to vertically center glyphs - in the script I'm currently working with, all glyphs should be vertically centered, so this is very inconvenient. I saw that there was one open issue on this very topic - but the last activity was in 2016, so I don't think it'll get added anytime soon. Instead, I decided to spend some hours on tripping over my skills to read the documentation.
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The End of Type 1
You are but, as of today, reliably, only via the GUI, and therefore, one by one, not in batches via scripting due to a bug[1]. That is the case at least for Type 1 Mac fonts.
[1]: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4668
- Font Creation Tools?
- 【のーもらふぉんと部】『FontForge』January 2023 出てました
- FontForge January 2023 Release
- Release FontForge January 2023 Release · fontforge/fontforge
- How TT Hinting Works · fontforge/fontforge Wiki
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Can Linux read *.fon files?
FON files are Windows bitmap fonts, aren't they? You could convert them to ttf using Fontforge.
bitmap-fonts
Posts with mentions or reviews of bitmap-fonts.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-14.
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Looking for good font options for a low-resolution, 320x240 screen
Here's a list of suitable ones. I've used leggie for things like this.
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Could someone ELI5 this command for installing fonts ?
git clone https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts.git cd bitmap-fonts sudo cp -avr bitmap/ /usr/share/fonts xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/bitmap fc-cache -fv
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Have seen a couple pages likely inspired by my original. Comes with accompanying Firefox theme.
It’s likely I used the bitmap font ‘proggy’. Here’s a link to a number of very similar bitmap fonts I use frequently across all projects, as well as programming. They’re all monospaced of course. https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
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terminator not showing .pcf or .bdf fonts?
so i'm experimenting with linux a bit before i eventually end up switching over to it sometime in the future, so i installed arch on a VM to look around. I installed terminator as my terminal of choice (or the choice of a guide i was watching), and wanted to mess around with fonts, eventually stumbling on bitmap fonts. I decided to install a repo of them here , and followed the terminal commands they showed exactly. from what i can tell all of the fonts are correctly installed because i can see them using fc-list. Upon going into the terminator preference menu, it appears none of the fonts are visible, which i can only assume to be caused by the fact that all of the fonts are .pcf or .bdf, instead of something like .ttf or .otf, which i appear to be able to install. Is there some way to enable these fonts inside of the menu, or is there a way to convert them to a usable format? I dont really have a problem switching terminals or the like if that ends up fixing it since im not necessarily attached to this one yet. TIA.
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some fonts (e.g. BDF) only show up in a few plces
On my previous system running ubuntu I had no problem with them so I believe the fonts themselves are fine. I obtained the fonts from this repo nd also installed via package manager with same result.
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Show HN: Coding Font – find your true love of coding fonts
Take a look at the selection here: https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
- Tecate/bitmap-fonts: Monospaced bitmap fonts for X11, good for terminal use
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[bspwm] Ready for the Hunt .
It's the default bitmap font since I didn't add any font in my xresources but you can get more of the bitmaps here
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| Looking for a bitmap icon font larger than Siji
You might find this repository interesting: bitmap-fonts
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fontforge and bitmap-fonts you can also consider the following projects:
Cozette - A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness 💜
dwm - Patches and config used to setup dwm