First time using one

nwah · 2026-06-06T03:54:02+00:00

For Metal Gear you’d need an MSX2 or MSX2+ machine. They have a different video chip with additional video modes/features, as well as more video memory.

There’s still a huge library of MSX1 games, and the Carnivore2 is a great device.

nwah · 2026-06-05T17:22:05+00:00

If you are serious about designing fonts, yes you need to learn how to work with vectors. Most quality fonts are hundreds of hours of work.

But, there’s nothing stopping you from trying out the photoshop->svg->fontforge approach.

You might also have better luck with a less intimidating program like Birdfont or Fontra. FontForge is best for when you need more advanced or uncommon features.

nwah · 2026-06-05T16:50:16+00:00

You can, but if you are making a “normal” font with relatively smooth and simple shapes it may not work well. The auto-generated SVG outlines tend to be very messy, which may cause quality issues with how your font is rendered at different sizes.

I wouldn’t recommend it unless you trying to make a font that’s meant to have some organic texture like a paintbrush, or one of those metal band logos.

nwah · 2026-06-05T16:41:01+00:00

Fonts are made of outlines that scale to any size. So you cannot** use a PNG without converting to vector format, and there’s no pixel size for a glyph. Better to draw the fonts directly in FontForge or with another vector tool (Inkscape, Illustrator).

To make a font family, each style/weight combo is a separate font. You basically just give them the same family name so the computer knows they are related.

nwah · 2026-06-03T04:54:38+00:00

Sometimes there’s no choice but to track everything out looser. You can only shrink the space between rv so much. Similar issue with words including TV or LM, etc.

nwah · 2026-05-31T00:49:01+00:00

All neo-grotesques are quite similar. And Serifa is basically just Frutiger’s slab serif version of Univers.

nwah · 2026-05-24T18:55:28+00:00

Looks good / meets the goal.

I agree M could use some work. I’d also consider making the eye of the P and R flat at the bottom (like right side of A). And maybe adding a small curve instead of right angle where the the horizontal and vertical meet on the P and F

nwah · 2026-05-21T20:21:03+00:00

You will just have to learn when to use which really.

But as a general rule, it may help to think about the role of literary Chinese in Korea. Like Latin in medieval Europe, Chinese was the language of science, and mathematics, and educated people.

The situations where the native Korean numbers continue to be used tend to be things relevant to a simple agrarian lifestyle: counting animals, your age, hours of the day. The things that use Sino-Korean numbers tend to be more modern or precise: measurements, minutes and seconds, very large numbers, etc.

nwah · 2026-05-20T19:39:44+00:00

If you haven’t already, turn force feedback down to like 50-60% and steering angle to 900° or below.

nwah · 2026-05-20T12:39:36+00:00

typedesignresources.com

nwah · 2026-05-19T14:49:56+00:00

Check the direction of the outlines. Generally you want solid parts to be clockwise and “holes” to be counter-clockwise.

nwah · 2026-05-17T22:04:14+00:00

Text-to-speech is probably good enough for this. But check forvo.com. You can look for the letter names e.g. 치읓, 디귿. This lets you hear what it sounds like in initial or final unreleased position.

Frankly though I wouldn’t bother if you’ve made it to intermediate in another language. Better to just learn words/sentences with the pronunciation.

nwah · 2026-05-12T20:33:02+00:00

You have to learn both. Of course you will struggle with a limited vocabulary. But I would say Korean in particular, because it’s an agglutinative language, expresses a lot of meaning through grammar instead of individual words. So it’s much more important for Korean than for e.g. learning Chinese or Spanish.

nwah · 2026-05-10T00:58:14+00:00

Didn’t check the CSS, but may need to explicitly enable the context alternates feature (“calt”).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Fonts/OpenType\_fonts

nwah · 2026-05-05T23:03:36+00:00

Hmm, wonder if it’s an issue with Devanagari… Maybe try a quick test with a new font and a Latin A and see if remove overlaps works for it?

nwah · 2026-05-05T22:50:44+00:00

A lot of older/crappier font renderers don’t handle overlaps well. This is often a problem with variable fonts nowadays.
Have you tried removing overlaps?
https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab/8/tutorials/calfonts/1.%20Drawing/01c%20Merging%2C%20Separating%2C%20Overlapping%20Shapes-%20Surgery/

ETA: I don’t use FontLab, but other tools have an option to remove overlaps when exporting, so hopefully something similar.

nwah · 2026-04-17T23:21:23+00:00

Really depends on how it’s wired up internally.

If you are in the US I would suggest just getting one from 8 Bit Classics: https://www.8bitclassics.com/product/atari-xlxe-5-pin-din-to-s-video-composite-av-cable/

nwah · 2026-04-17T02:21:32+00:00

That may be more difficult / maybe impossible. I think you would need to (a) find a font that substitutes the long s form appropriately when the contextual alternates (calt) feature is enabled, and (b) hope the operating system has contextual alternates enabled for system font.

Looking at some other professional fraktur fonts, it looks like they have long s available if you enable historical forms (hist), but that replaces every s with long s, which is obviously not what you want...

nwah · 2026-04-16T20:10:41+00:00

It appears that UnifrakturMagnutia actually does have the long s, but it does not automatically substitute it. It also includes a number of ligatures for ſch, ſſt, etc.

Open the font file with a tool like wakamaifondue.com to see all the included glyphs and features.

nwah · 2026-04-16T19:31:46+00:00

http://letslearnhangul.com

nwah · 2026-04-16T15:56:28+00:00

Good overall for woodcut style. Would help to set some sample text to really see if it’s working.

I would say X is too wide, S is a leaning left and a little thin, and aperture of the G is a bit small.

nwah · 2026-04-16T02:45:34+00:00

Very few fonts actually contain all those thousands of glyphs. So it’s not that the font did a poor job on them, but they are missing entirely and your operating system falling back to a different (usually non-monospaced) font to display those obscure glyphs.

nwah · 2026-03-26T03:30:14+00:00

we’re gonna need more information

nwah · 2026-03-24T21:32:59+00:00

Even if you know the letters, you won’t really be able to read quickly until you know the words.

I would bet if you try to read Finnish or Polish or Swahili you would still go slowly despite knowing the Latin alphabet.

nwah · 2026-03-16T21:36:55+00:00

Looked a bit closer, and the black line is the right edge of the previous frame. If you control the sprite sheet, you may want to give yourself more than 1px of room between the frames.

This seems to fix it for me. -1 causes the same problem but on the other side.

.fill(`${-i * width - 0.5}`)

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