Comments on: Darwin ISO-Latin-1 Font

By: dalahäst

dalahäst — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:40:19 +0000

Perhaps I spoke too soon. This conversion of the font is almost perfect, with one minor exception (no programming pun intended) in the encoding. The letter “á” (lowercase A with acute accent) is floating off in space in the encoding. Some other letters shifted to take its place, resulting in one of the accented lowercase I’s not having any glyph, and causing certain characters to produce the wrong glyph. I’ve tried fixing it myself, but then the only characters that will show up are the accented ones I fixed. Any help?

By: dalahäst

dalahäst — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:12:56 +0000

My god, and to think that I spent all day today trying to make this font pixel-by-pixel (in FontForge as well, actually) from an image I found of the character set. Thank you, you’ve saved me a lot of time.

I’m noticing other similarities in what we were doing—I was using Apple’s dfont format as well, hehe.

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:11:14 +0000

Thanks! the theme installed is called “Northern Web Coders” but I modified it a bunch to suit my needs, especially for the integration with WPG2 and two level menus.

By: ffxi gil

ffxi gil — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:09:11 +0000

“Interesting Article – keep up the good work :)

Also, what is the theme have you installed at the moment? I want to know if it’s a free one.”

By: Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler

Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:27:54 +0000

Nice! I have used my own BDF conversion of this same font for a few years, but the .dfont is much easier to install. By the way, this Darwin console font was originally derived from a bitmap drawn by Ka-Ping Yee, but it was subsequently heavily modified by someone at Apple (including changing the shape of capital A to be rounded instead of pointy.)

By: despa

despa — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:08:14 +0000

megazoomer is neat :D nice font too, gives terminal a cozy feeling..

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:25:47 +0000

Chad, It is okay, I guess it was valuable to learn the hard way, but I think you could create a bitmap only version of the tool start from there. : D

By: Chad Weider

Chad Weider — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:21:04 +0000

Hooray for typefaces! I’m sorry I hadn’t written my awesome type design tool yet.

By: Erik Hinterbichler

Erik Hinterbichler — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:10:36 +0000

Looks spectacular!