Unscii

Posted by Levitating 10 hours ago

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Comment by susam 2 hours ago

Slightly off-topic but related.

See also: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack from VileR at <https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/>.

I came across this website when I was looking for IBM PC OEM fonts for a little HTML + Canvas-based invaders-like game I was developing a few years ago. It is impressive how much effort VileR has poured into recovering each OEM font and their countless variants, from a wide range of ROMs. The site not only archives them all with incredible attention to detail, but also offers live previews, aspect ratio correction and other thoughtful features that make exploring it a joy. I've spent numerous hours there comparing different OEM fonts and hunting down the best ones to use in my own work!

Comment by Gormo 1 hour ago

I've been using the Px437 Verite 9x6 font from this pack as my main terminal font for years now, and couldn't be happier with it. VileR's font pack is great for both retro use cases, like displaying ANSI art, and for modern ones.

Comment by mghackerlady 28 minutes ago

This is conveniently timed, I was planning on doing a cool retro-y WindowMaker rice over christmas break. Better than Liberation Sans

Comment by jhoechtl 2 hours ago

With sixel support finally comming to terminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

we are full circle, 40 year later.

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Comment by otikik 5 hours ago

I just tested and my local nerdfont[1] does not support a bunch of those graphical glyphs, perhaps that is something that could be added.

[1] https://www.nerdfonts.com

Comment by otikik 1 hour ago

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/issues/1959

Comment by anthk 23 minutes ago

Nerdfont sucks as it's non-standard.

Comment by proof_by_vibes 2 hours ago

This is perfect. I'm currently creating a MUD and these are exactly the kind of fonts I want. Thanks for sharing!

Comment by jaffa2 1 hour ago

Reminds me of UDG graphics on the sinclair spectrum. I like the example of the image in the article very cool art.

Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 7 hours ago

> Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use.

It took several seconds to load for me, so here's the first paragraph. It's a good first paragraph, though!

Comment by IAmBroom 36 minutes ago

Are you on dialup? :D

Comment by mghackerlady 27 minutes ago

The 'net on dialup (good dialup at least) isn't that bad with JavaScript and images disabled. Better yet on a text based browser like Lynx or Offpunk

Comment by hamaqueto 37 minutes ago

Thank God! You saved me.

I won't have to wait seconds (!!!) to read it

Comment by imiric 6 hours ago

I like the look of this a lot! Especially how condensed it is, similar to my favorite monospace TrueType font Iosevka Term. The ANSI color rendering looks phenomenal.

I'll definitely give this a try in my Linux TTY. Thanks for sharing!

Comment by gothicbluebird 4 hours ago

could also suit Termux (Android linux terminal) well. Will try it asap

Comment by iberator 54 minutes ago

How to install it?

Comment by gothicbluebird 4 hours ago

looks very useful. And skillful! Very careful typographic reasoning when creating the glyphs from the classic originals.

Comment by boxed 2 hours ago

That ' is tilted kinda ruins it for me as a programming font, but otherwise looks really nice.