[NTLK] [Semi-OT] Converting classic Mac fonts into bitmaps on a modern machine?

[Vladislav Korotnev]

Thanks Grant!

Looks like monobit is the tool I need, after I manage to extract the file
without unforking the forks by accident — which I'm pretty sure I used to
know a way how to, haha.
Sadly though it seems the smallest version of Chicago is at 12pt, which
makes it 15px tall. Not very easy to use on a 16px tall display aside from
titles and whatnot.
On top of which it seems to have characters wider than 8px, so I need to
design and implement proportional font support for it to look good.

I'll see what I can do!

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 7:45 AM Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <
newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:

> > On Sep 9, 2024, at 8:38 PM, Vladislav Korotnev <vladkorotnev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Now, this morning I accidentally stumbled upon a photo of my long gone
> Mac
> > Classic booting up and it hit me: I need to port the Chicago font on this
> > thing!
> >
> > However, looking online, it seems there is no dump of that font as a
> bitmap
> > plance anywhere — let alone of it's Russian version, which was probably
> > fairly obscure.
>
> I love this idea Vlad.
>
> You might find a starting point to what you’re looking for here:
>
> https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts
>
> From the read me:
>
> “The fonts in this repository are stored in the human-friendly text-based
> YAFF format. As such, the easiest way to view them is to open the text
> files directly. Alternatively, you can use monobit to render them to images
> or convert them to font formats supported by current operating systems.”
>
> g.
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