a year ago
Another classic console font is the GPLv2 Solarize 12x29 PSF young'un oldschool font from Sun SPARCstation via Linux safekeeping, https://github.com/talamus/solarize-12x29-psf & https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2356167&s=f531b970...
Origins of this font can be traced to the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation console. In some early days of Linux development that font was donated to be a part of the Linux kernel.. Characters: Latin, Greek, Cryillic, Pinyin.a year ago
The Corona is my favorite font at https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?cordata_...
On FreeBSD the SPARC console font is called “gallant” by the way and is easy to use if installed: vidcontrol -f 8x16 gallant
a year ago
I get the nostalgia, but even back in the day I though that the "standard" PC text mode font was really ugly. With a little bit more effort, IBM could have made everyone's life a little bit more pleasant, but they didn't.
a year ago
There aren't that many choices when it comes to drawing the letter "A" on an 8x6 pixel grid...
I don't think the font designers had much option for pretty.
a year ago
As it turns out, it’s actually a quite beautiful font. It doesn’t make any sense, but it is. Like… It is its own aesthetic paradigm?
a year ago
Excellent. Even looking at that page brings me back to DOS days.
BTW, what’s everyone’s favorite NFO viewer?
With this font pack, LiteXL/Pragtical would probably do a great job, BRB gotta test it.
a year ago
Used to just use EDIT or ACIDDRAW
a year ago
We need these fonts in .psf format for the linux console.
Maybe super-sized versions for 4k displays. (I think that would be 48x90 or 48x86!)
a year ago
a year ago
i'd love to make a website with similar style. but i did not find any informations on the int10h website. anybody knows anything about it? (except of course just to make it myself)
a year ago
a year ago
> Free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license
Really? Can you even copyright a font? As far as I know, fonts can't be copyrighted, meaning they can be used by anyone without needing a licence. IANAL, but it seems like font users aren't required to comply with attribution and share-alike requirements of the CC licence.
a year ago
The shapes can't be copyrighted, apparently, but the bits that make up the digitalization can. IANAL, etc.
a year ago
Bitmap fonts are not covered by copyright: <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-393.pdf>, <https://cdn.loc.gov/copyright/history/mls/ML-443.pdf>
It is vector fonts, which can contain copyrightable code, which can be copyrighted.
a year ago
So it would seem. Thanks for digging those up.
With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to e.g. TrueType hinting, or OpenType shaping (or very avant-gardely, WASM shaping)? I should hope the glyph-drawing instructions don't fall under this definition of code, because that'd maybe mean SVG `path`s are copyrightable...
a year ago
> With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to
What specifics you can get is all described in ML-443.
a year ago