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Show HN: Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue

by deejayy on 6/5/24, 9:35 PM with 38 comments

• by hakfoo on 6/6/24, 5:42 AM

  Another option in this space is Modern DOS - https://notabug.org/HarvettFox96/ttf-moderndos

  I like it for its even-more-permissive license and the slashed instead of dotted zero.

• by untech on 6/6/24, 12:25 AM

  Wow, thanks for Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian, not many fonts have support for all three. Will definitely give it a shot. Iosevka doesn’t have Armenian and Georgian, for instance.

• by ptspts on 6/5/24, 11:31 PM

  VGA text mode displayed 8x16 fonts as 9x16, either repeating the rightmost column or displaying an empty rightmost column.

  Is there a 9x16 version of this font?

• by pimlottc on 6/5/24, 11:05 PM

  This seems like a bit of a hodgepodge; I'm not sure all these character sets were supported back in the DOS days and some of the character, like the runic ones, seem too big. It would be nice to know where these are all sourced from.

  EDIT: without the extra letter spacing added in the character samples, you can see how some of the wider characters run into their neighbors:

     javascript:document.styleSheets[0].insertRule('.character-list { letter-spacing: normal !important }')

• by matvore on 6/6/24, 4:58 AM

  This is the default font of my browser-based terminal emulator, http://github.com/google/werm, along with a handful of other retro fonts (uses the int10h.org ttf's--converted to bitmaps--which I suspect has all the same characters as Neue)

• by stonogo on 6/6/24, 6:03 AM

  Would be nice if this person collaborated with this project: https://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/index.htm...

  Each seems to have glyphs the other is missing.

• by atulvi on 6/5/24, 11:57 PM

  I'll pay for one of these that look good in vscode and supports ligatures. One can dream.

• by anyfoo on 6/5/24, 11:40 PM

  They never look right.

  It's not just the fact that it should be 9x16 instead of 8x16, or that sometimes (often?) the aspect ratio is off, it's something fundamental about how that 9x16 VGA font was rendered on CRTs.

  A really good CRT emulation on a really good flatscreen monitor can maybe simulate the VGA text mode experience of the day, but so far I haven't really seen it.

• by cowsaymoo on 6/6/24, 7:11 AM

  Here is a more extensive font resource (and awesome website): https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/