[HN Gopher] I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and ...
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I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on
GitHub
Author : ianhanschen
Score : 39 points
Date : 2021-02-03 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| einpoklum wrote:
| It would be nice if you could create a webpage with a bit of JS
| with controls for choosing the font parameters, and the right
| font coming up on the browser window, perhaps with a nice zoom
| factor.
| ianhanschen wrote:
| Sounds cool - you're welcome to submit a pull request.
| pmayrgundter wrote:
| Thanks for posting!
|
| To turn this into a font for a sprite sheet would take some
| sort of mapping for each..
|
| Autosegmentation seems maybe practical.
|
| Are the glyphs in any order? I just poked around and it
| doesn't seem so. Indexing them according to character code
| would be a fair amount of work by hand. Maybe a handwriting
| Neural Net? Hmm.. I have an old one somewhere
| neetdeth wrote:
| The few I've opened appear to cover a 60-character segment
| of the ASCII table from 0x20 to 0x5B in row major order
| with a fixed glyph size indicated in the file name.
| pengaru wrote:
| We have a volunteer!
| ianhanschen wrote:
| After seeing a few of the sites go down it seemed like a good
| idea to put it under source control. I don't claim rights to any
| of these works.
| teddyh wrote:
| > _I don 't claim rights to any of these works._
|
| That's not how copyright works.
| ianhanschen wrote:
| (Deleted grumbling)
| striking wrote:
| I understand the urge to handwave away copyright or
| whatever, but it would be nice to at least see some
| attribution or the links from which you obtained the fonts.
| The people who made the content you're redistributing would
| probably appreciate that.
| ianhanschen wrote:
| If I still had this information I would.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| Oh well, ask for forgiveness, not permission. Zero people
| are going to press claims on this repo. And I'll make the
| easy wager that nobody who made any of these fonts are
| ever going to know about (much less care about) this
| repo.
|
| We bootlick/grandstand over the weirdest things on this
| forum. Demosceners caring about another hacker publishing
| or using their font? Oh bother.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| And that's fine: Github has a perfectly reasonable dispute
| resolution procedure, where rights holders first get to
| contact the repo owner to either remove or properly attribute
| their work. And if that doesn't lead to a satisfactory
| resolution, they can file a DMCA takedown notice and force
| the issue.
| ianhanschen wrote:
| Yep. I am fine with artists contacting me if they want
| their work credited or removed. I only did it because it
| seemed like a good idea to secure them somewhere.
| gabereiser wrote:
| This is a perfectly reasonable response. I would even say
| in a readme "hey, I don't know where all this came from
| originally, contact me if it's you" or something along
| those lines. It's fine though. These bitmap fonts are
| awesome even if a little light on char support. What
| would be really cool is an xml or json file with the rect
| positions of the chars in the charmap.
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