My opentype font project inspired by the Atari ST system fonts

[sporniket]

Almost a decade ago, I discovered fontforge, and decided that I wanted to have a font looking like the ST high system font on my desktop, that would be nice when printing too.

The first iteration was quite peculiar as I wanted to remove the serifs that was on some glyphs, as well as having no deformed glyphs to accomodate diacritics. And it a was variable width font.The curves were crude, also. All in all, a nice try, but not very usefull for a daily use.

So I made a v2, with a clear goal of rasterizing as faithfully as possible, while being nice on paper. Since I first completed that new version, I use it on my computer, and whenever possible on my work laptop (mainly only in IDE, I could not convince Windows to use the font anywhere)

The project is there : https://github.com/sporniket/Sporniket-Nostalgie-Sans

To date, the collection of fonts is made of a single font :

• Sporniket Nostalgie 2 Console : inspired by the 8×16 pixels («high resolution») system font of the Atari ST.

I plan other fonts in the collection, but no promises : a variant reproducing the 8×8 pixel font, and also a font made with all the glyphs of the "console" font, but each glyphs has the width adapted to it's shape, for use in word processing documents. I also plan to port most of the glyphs that can be found as code ascii 1 to 31 in the ST (arrows, bell, the face, the 7 segments digits), once again no promise.

After the first release of the v2 around 7 years ago, I leveraged the little time that I still have since being dad again to add the euro sign. The latest release is here : https://github.com/sporniket/Sporniket- ... tag/v2.1.1

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I prefer using antialiasing with the font :

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[chronicthehedgehog]

Thanks. Just installed it. It will make MS Terminal more interesting