http://i.imgur.com/LDSOade.png
(code at https://github.com/Elv13/ , but that particular theme isn't pushed yet as it require upstream patches still in the CI)
For amber, the X11 color "goldenrod" (#daa520) is near perfect.
Makes me wanna go to old regional offices in case some of their 80s computer are still in a basement somewhere. Just to run the OS of the day and re-experience fonts, layouts, proportions, dithering-patterns..
So far the only font I found that supports a lot of that sort of thing is DejaVu Sans mono but even that is rather sparse- there's very few Greek letter super/subscripts say, and there's a limited selection of Latin superscripts. Block elements and box drawings wouldn't hurt either.
I know about pragmata pro and unifont. I've tried Unifont, I think it hurt my eyes a bit but it sure has lots of glyphs. Pragmata is very pretty and has great coverage but it's not free and I don't see that it has more glyphs than free fonts, for instance with DejaVu mono I have a subscript for j which I don't see in Pragmata. Or, the APL glyphs for instance; unifont has them too and it's free.
I'll give ReactOS a try, thanks. I had given up hope to be honest, I guess Unicode is just too big to implement fully.
Edit: Ok, Pragmata costs €19 for just the regular weight- I thought it was costed by unicode range. I could definitely give that a try, so thanks for the hint mietek.
2nd Edit: Ouch, no- the mono font is €59. That's too high again :)
It's all my mathy friends use for taking notes.
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...
https://damieng.com/blog/2014/07/20/typography-in-bits-other...
Me, I grew up on Acorn machines, so those are my classic nostalgia font. Although, on a modern LCD with square-edged pixels, they look like arse --- jaggy and overly bold. I wonder if there's a way to emulate fuzzy CRTs with Truetype...
If these fonts are used in some kind of retro game, those shaders could be applied as well. Desktop compositor on X11 effects could do the same. Not sure if there is a way to apply shaders to an entire desktop elsewhere (maybe f.lux do something like that to change the colours?)
One of the first things I learned to do was write a script to load something else on boot - Acorn's Arial knockoff I think. That was ugly too, but better by far.
I find the old typefaces from the early 8 bit and 16 bit days really charming. They were working with such severe limitations. I remember designing my own font on my Amiga and using it on my desktop...I kinda wish I still had those files. But, they weren't nearly as legible as the fonts from the vendors.
PAL didn't suffer too much from this, but NTSC did. Single pixel verticals light up in a rainbow of color. This is actually how the monochrome Apple 2 did it's color graphics!
White on blue is a secondary helper here. On sharp displays, the human eye sees the white text at full detail. Humans have only a fraction of blue receptors, compared to red and green. This means screen noise gets lost in a sea of blue.
On composite displays, that same sea of blue tends to was artifacts away. SGI IRIX offered it's Xterm with a great font, white on blue and it was very easy on the eyes.
I've used that combo for terminals ever since.
It's also worth noting they had no such restriction on their TTL-based monitors.
Does anyone know if there's something similar for Amiga (for ascii art)
