From: Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>,
Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hack font for plan9
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:35:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7afb7ed-2ac6-4f47-baf8-c7e29d5712f0@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78bfcfcf8c63f0f01e970956e3b8af20@quintile.net>
Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> I have converted the open source font called Hack to plan 9 font
>format.
>
>Thats nice, not sure if I will switch, I will try it for a week or
>so...
>
>I think the sizes are wrong, the 14 point in the hack directory looks
>close to 9 point in
>the plan9 pelm font.
>
>-Steve
To be fair, 9pt lucm appears as (roughly) grapefruit sized runes on most screens. Compare with 9pt fonts as rendered on an 8.5x11 page by ghostscript.
sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-16 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-16 2:22 Chris McGee
2016-11-16 14:27 ` Steve Simon
2016-11-16 14:49 ` Chris McGee
2016-11-16 15:35 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2016-11-17 1:30 ` Andrew Simmons
2016-11-17 1:38 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-11-17 1:43 ` Andrew Simmons
2016-11-18 4:02 ` michaelian ennis
2016-11-17 1:44 ` Stanley Lieber
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