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From: Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:35:08 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>,
	Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hack font for plan9
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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 ghostscr=
ipt.

sl