Transprogrammer @lemmy.blahaj.zone stgiga @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2y ago

UnifontEX: My programming font that took 6 years.

An extended fork of GNU Unifont with a focus on high compatibility.

6 years ago I set out to improve GNU Unifont, and finally after 6 years I have finished. It has MANY special Unicode symbols, including gender ones and plenty of technical ones. I use it as my IDE and terminal fonts on ALL my OSes. Oh and this time I fixed the link.

Also, "UnifontExMono.png" is both its own preview image as well as a proper build of the font for use cases where TTF and BDF are too big, like in character LCDs. I also do extensive documentation of my content so don't hate me.

Here's a link: UnifontEX

Logo: UnifontEX's logo

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Incredibly based. Love the rant-like structure of the post rsther than boring bullet points with pretty badges. I don't need a sales pitch to understand why I need to use this font.
- Sorry.
  
  Wait wdym sorry I love it I am.the target audience for your font and your writing about it.
Do you have an extended preview image? The .png preview on your GitHub seems to just be black.
- I didn't make a preview image.
  
  I think some images would go a long way to help the text.
  
  Y'know, it's kinda important to know how a font looks like, that's pretty much the whole point.
  
  What is this, then?
Did you mean to link to the project? Maybe it's my app but I don't see anything.
- Yes. I forgot that Lemmy didn’t let you upload images AND URLs. I made it now link to the Github page. http://stgiga.github.io/UnifontEX
  
  Also this reply originally wasn't a reply, I think Lemmy is buggy right now.
- The most prominent image on the page should appear as the link preview so adding the logo link to README.md could help; you can add an image and/or link to the repo in the post body.
  
  I did do the Markdown image embed into the README, as well as a repo link and image in the body of the post, but regrettably Lemmy isn't making the actual post image work.
I just made a NEC PC-98 version via Neko Project 2 (the Wii version can make TrueType fonts into ANEX86.BMP replacements for PC-98 emulators) which has been uploaded.
UPDATE:

UnifontEX has now received a JSTF table, a process that fixed compatibility with some programs. It also has been given a vector DFONT and a better WOFF1 in terms of bandwith. PLEASE redownload.

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