Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
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Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#2Neat. It does look just like the font I had on that terminal.... back in the day.
There's some interesting design in it.
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#3I use this font all the time with my gnome terminal set at 132x43 to remind me of my good times with OpenVMS using a VT220.
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#4My formative years at uni were spent on VT320s, the smell of hot dust on CRT, the tick, tick, key click sound, the subtle off-white colouring, the tasteful thickness of it…
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#5I used to love this font but the fake scanline effect was eyehurty after a while. DEC Terminal Modern is the same font with a nice vector look that won't interfere with the scanlines when you use it in cool-retro-term.
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#6A lot more information here, including how the phosphor decay is part of the font and you won't get the right appearance if you don't take it into account: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#7I built it into a package for arch AUR, then when I loooked at it, I have to agree. The scan lines built into the font are not desirable.
I installed the DEC Terminal Modern package 8-/
Cool notes on the rendering process by the author though...
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#8Here's how to do the same thing in Fontforge (with .otf file ready for download) https://gist.github.com/epilys/95869773037d3d2235d324bd5a048...
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#9Fans of this might enjoy https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Re: Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
#10A lot more information here, including how the phosphor decay is part of the font and you won't get the right appearance if you don't take it into account: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography
I do wonder if a sufficiently clever person could coerce OpenType's Variable Font extension to simulate phosphor behaviour.