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The Oldschool PC Font Pack

109 points| peter_d_sherman | 6 years ago |int10h.org | reply

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[+] 0xff00ffee|6 years ago|reply
My problem with these fontpacks is that they fail to emulate the blur of the electron gun that created visible gaps between the round pixels (which smeared into ovals). Only the most expensive IBM 8514/A (or later NEC 6FG) monitors looked that sharp, but most of us were using inexpensive monochrome (amber or green) displays in the 80's.
[+] sneakernets|6 years ago|reply
When do we get fonts with such features in all OSes? It took ages to get Emoji right in OSes that weren't mobile, now it's time for fonts themselves to step it up.
[+] bbmario|6 years ago|reply
Given that our monitors have outrageous resolutions today, I miss pixel-perfect fonts with good size. I'm getting older and the eyes are not getting any better.
[+] eggoa|6 years ago|reply
I miss them too. On a 1920x1080 laptop display I can see the grayscale font smoothing as a blur which my eyes try to correct for. In order to make it tolerable I've turned off font smoothing globally. Ugly and jagged text gives me less eyestrain than the built in blurriness of Windows font smoothing.
[+] crazygringo|6 years ago|reply
But normal fonts are easier to read.

Introducing pixel "jaggies" on angled and curved lines makes letterforms harder to distinguish, not easier.

Why do you think pixellated fonts would be better on your eyes?

Perhaps you just need bolder fonts, if it's an eyesight issue?

[+] acheron|6 years ago|reply
I have loved this since it came out and use the PxPlus VGA9 font for day to day programming and console use. I have a very strong association between that font and what the computer is "really" doing.
[+] zevv|6 years ago|reply
I am kind of disturbed by the fact that the samples use "A quick brown fox..." instead of "The quick brown fox...".
[+] deadmetheny|6 years ago|reply
I'm partial to "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"
[+] sliptype|6 years ago|reply
I'm really impressed with that pixel art. Anybody know the process for making something like that?
[+] gwbas1c|6 years ago|reply
Back in the day I used TheDraw for fine editing. It was a DOS program.

(It's been over 20 years since I last used it, so I don't know where to start other than saying you'll probably need to use DOSBOX to run it.

I also used a graphical program for starting with long ANSIs that basically used the half-character blocks to start with basic pixels, but I don't remember the name. (Basically, the characters that turn 80x25 text into 80x50 pixels.)

[+] sdegutis|6 years ago|reply
The one I've been keeping an eye on for a few years is https://www.aseprite.org which unfortunately I have not yet needed for anything, but hopefully it helps you.