Re: [9fans] bitstream vera

[C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>]

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is that canonical? any references?  i'd like to know that's really
what is supposed to be implemented, without having to
go off to investigate, since i've got a lot on at the moment.

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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bitstream vera
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:05:47 -0500
Message-ID: <20031026140547.GA5550@ionkov.net>

Speaking about multibit fonts ...

I was trying to add suport for subpixel fonts. I think the easier way to
implement that is to make memimagedraw to apply the channels of the "mask"
image (if it is not monocrhome) to the appropriate channels of the "src"
image. Currently it generates a greyscale image and applies it to every
channel.

Is that change going to break anything? Is it a good idea at all?

Thanks,
	Lucho

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 07:35:21PM -0400, Russ Cox said:
> > I've converted Bitstream Vera to Plan 9 format:
> > 	http://www.cse.psu.edu/~schwartz/vera.tar.bz2
> >
> > I'm not sure what dpi ttf2subf is using, but I selected a handful of
> > point sizes, hopefully good ones.
>
> That's a nice font.  Does it look good in 1-bit depth?
> (I find the multibit fonts too fuzzy for every-day use.
> I think my eyes keep trying to focus better.)
>
> Russ