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UNSCII, a Unicode bitmap font family inspired by classic computer systems.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2025-04-27 · latest 2026-11-08

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  1. …the PET was 7×7) they work better with CJKV and 'square' character cells than 9×16 PC fonts do. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f/ * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-pet16.t... I've also used Dragon (i.e. MC…
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-11-08 · in Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer
  2. Interesting. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-topaz.t... Although Unscii populates Unicode from a number of sources and leaves the source fonts at their original repertoires.
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-05-28 · in A few interesting modern pixel fonts
  3. …fixes in the main branch. I've added a fair amount of stuff beyond that in a branch of unscii. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f * https://github.com/jdebp/funscii
    comment by JdeBP · 2026-05-28 · in A few interesting modern pixel fonts
  4. …give it a go. A text editor and Viznut's perl scripts yields BDF files quite straightforwardly. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-topaz.t... * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-spectru...
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-09-25 · in Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor
  5. Viznut uses perl to build the fonts from source in Unscii. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-07-22 · in The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme
  6. …that algorithmically constructs block and line characters, and has been updated for Unicode 13). * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/grids.txt#L4... * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/grids.txt#L9...
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-07-17 · in Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service
  7. …vastly more space hungry than a normalization approach using the actual Unicode code points. * https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-05-20 · in The emoji problem (2022)
  8. …(an old version of) GNU Unifont as well. The adaptation of 8by8 characters is fairly systematic: https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/unscii.txt#L... Unsung items in the source include font files for the old platforms, such as…
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-04-27 · in Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics