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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalizationLiberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalizationPosted Jun 26, 2012 14:31 UTC (Tue) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)In reply to: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization by jengelh Parent article: Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization The problem is Terminus is a pure bitmap font That's a good thing. For printing, you want a vector font. But for terminal use, I still use bitmap fonts, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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Liberation fonts and the tricky task of internationalization Posted Jun 26, 2012 14:43 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Pure bitmaps (like .fnt, .pcf) do not offer any advantage currently.
- There is no support to have them automatically scaled up. In contrast, you can run Fixedsys Excelsior TTF at 32px (i.e. twice its designed size) just by telling xterm/fontconfig to render it as such. - Besides vectorized glyphs, truetype fonts can also have embedded bitmaps. This is very dominant in the CJK glyph range where the (antialiased) scaledown is often too blurry. But Arial/Times also have bitmaps for Latin scripts. IOW, I'd love to have Terminus as TTF, just to be able to run it somehow at sizes larger than 32px.
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