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Show HN: Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue

132 pointsby deejayy12 months ago

9 comments

hakfoo12 months ago
Another option in this space is Modern DOS - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notabug.org&#x2F;HarvettFox96&#x2F;ttf-moderndos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notabug.org&#x2F;HarvettFox96&#x2F;ttf-moderndos</a><p>I like it for its even-more-permissive license and the slashed instead of dotted zero.
untech12 months ago
Wow, thanks for Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian, not many fonts have support for all three. Will definitely give it a shot. Iosevka doesn’t have Armenian and Georgian, for instance.
ptspts12 months ago
VGA text mode displayed 8x16 fonts as 9x16, either repeating the rightmost column or displaying an empty rightmost column.<p>Is there a 9x16 version of this font?
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pimlottc12 months ago
This seems like a bit of a hodgepodge; I&#x27;m not sure all these character sets were supported back in the DOS days and some of the character, like the runic ones, seem too big. It would be nice to know where these are all sourced from.<p>EDIT: without the extra letter spacing added in the character samples, you can see how some of the wider characters run into their neighbors:<p><pre><code> javascript:document.styleSheets[0].insertRule(&#x27;.character-list { letter-spacing: normal !important }&#x27;)</code></pre>
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matvore12 months ago
This is the default font of my browser-based terminal emulator, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;werm">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;werm</a>, along with a handful of other retro fonts (uses the int10h.org ttf&#x27;s--converted to bitmaps--which I suspect has all the same characters as Neue)
stonogo12 months ago
Would be nice if this person collaborated with this project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inp.nsk.su&#x2F;~bolkhov&#x2F;files&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;univga&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inp.nsk.su&#x2F;~bolkhov&#x2F;files&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;univga&#x2F;index.htm...</a><p>Each seems to have glyphs the other is missing.
atulvi12 months ago
I&#x27;ll pay for one of these that look good in vscode and supports ligatures. One can dream.
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anyfoo12 months ago
They never look right.<p>It&#x27;s not just the fact that it should be 9x16 instead of 8x16, or that sometimes (often?) the aspect ratio is off, it&#x27;s something fundamental about how that 9x16 VGA font was rendered on CRTs.<p>A really good CRT emulation on a really good flatscreen monitor can maybe simulate the VGA text mode experience of the day, but so far I haven&#x27;t really seen it.
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cowsaymoo12 months ago
Here is a more extensive font resource (and awesome website): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;int10h.org&#x2F;oldschool-pc-fonts&#x2F;fontlist&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;int10h.org&#x2F;oldschool-pc-fonts&#x2F;fontlist&#x2F;</a>
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