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em-beeyesterday at 9:31 PM1 replyview on HN

what are the names of the fonts are they using?

i found something here, but i am not sure if these are the right ones: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/pcvtfonts?sort=Fil...


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skydhashtoday at 1:25 AM

Those are fonts you can load with the vga driver. Anything recent will load with the drm driver (intel, amd) or framebuffer. This emulates a text mode (rasops) on a graphical surfaces (vga has dedicated text mode), and for that they use spleen.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/dev/wsfont?sort=File

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

And yes, it’s quite nice.

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