Add New Font #72
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The zachomedia/go-bdf has our changes merged and it has fixes to the bounds of the glyphs, which renders fonts much more nicely using pixlet. For example, a colon now has the appropriate spacing.
This commit adds the font embedding utility to the make file so that we can embed new fonts on build.
This commit adds a preview to examples to preview new fonts in the repo.
This commit adds the Tom Thumb font found here: https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html This font is supy tiny and allows for packing some serious information onto a display.
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| A very tiny, monospace, bitmap font. It's a 4x6 font (3x5 usable pixels) that's | ||
| great for packing in information on your display. If you're using all uppercase | ||
| characters, you can set the height of the text widget equal to 5 to only occupy | ||
| five pixels on your device! |
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The all uppercase comment can be true, but we'd need to modify this font. I honestly think we should add a tom-thumb-upper that has all lowercase characters removed and the height set to 5.
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Overview
We needed a much smaller font here at Tidbyt to get more information onto the display. In searching for a font, I realized it was rather difficult to add a new font to the repo. With these changes, all you have to do is add an appropriately licensed BDF font into the
fonts/directory andmake buildto get access to your new font.Changes
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