Terminus TTF v4.49.3, based on Terminus Font v4.49.1 (sic!), has been released.

Changes:

• The scalable outlines now look a lot better than before, and almost fully match the bitmaps.

  Anti-aliasing might still make the outlines look not as crisp as the bitmaps, but in my humble opinion, they look a lot better than before!

  This has been achieved by upscaling the bitmaps before tracing them, and then scaling the result back down to the size of the input bitmap.

  I actually discovered this approach two years ago or so in a fork of my mkttf Git repository (and then forgot about it), but unfortunately, I can’t find the fork anymore. Maybe it was removed? If you know who came up with the idea, please drop me an email, and I will credit the person responsible.

• The OS/2 vendor ID (aka the foundry ID) has been changed to AX86 (which is also a registered vendor ID!).

  Unless you were relying on the old, generic vendor ID (PfEd — FontForge’s default vendor ID), this should not impact you.

  GitHub issue: #12

• The Bold Italic variant now includes Bold-Italic in its font names, and its filename; before, those places contained Bold Italic.

  In other words, the space has been dropped, since spaces are not allowed in PostScript font names; also, the space in the filename caused issues for some people.

  Unless you were relying on the full family name of the Bold Italic variant (or its exact filename) instead of using the font’s attributes (i.e. “Bold” and “Italic”), this should not impact you.

  GitHub issue: #10

• A new variant has been added: Variant ll2-td1 combines the existing variants ll2 and td1.

There were no upstream changes.

Visit the Terminus TTF homepage to download the new version.

Terminus TTF v4.49.2, based on Terminus Font v4.49.1 (sic!), has been released.

Changes:

• The td1 variant did not actually have the td1 patch applied. Thanks to wynadorn for noticing!

Apart from that change, this release is identical to the previous release v4.49.1, and is likewise based on Terminus Font v4.49.1. In other words, there were no upstream changes.

Visit the Terminus TTF homepage to download the new version.

I’ve finally managed to replace the truly ancient version of b2evolution that served as this blog’s backend for the last 13 years with Pelican.

While b2evolution is a classic PHP application with a database, Pelican generates simple static websites. Which is nice because you just need some place (like GitLab Pages, GitHub Pages, or an AWS S3 bucket) to put those static files instead of a fully-fledged LAMP setup. No database required! Of course, less software also means both a smaller attack surface and less maintenance, which is an added bonus.

I managed to keep most URLs intact (most importantly: article and tag URLs), but unfortunately, the main Atom and RSS feed URLs are now different. Sorry about that! At least there are now per-tag feeds available, which makes it easier to track e. g. the terminus tag.

Terminus TTF v4.49.1, based on Terminus Font v4.49.1, is now finally available. It’s been more than two years since the last release!

Sorry for the wait — life happened, and I was unable to respond to many of your emails for much too long. I’m currently catching up, so expect replies soon.

Relevant upstream changes since the previous release v4.47.0:

• Added the basic 27 hebrew letters and sheqel, with uppercase height.
• Altered ascii grave in some sizes to be more useful as a back quote.
• Fixed 21B5, added 21B2 and 21B3.

Visit the Terminus TTF homepage to download the new version.

Happy new year! :)

Terminus TTF v4.47.0, based on Terminus Font v4.47, is now available.

This new version includes the following changes from upstream:

• Added 35 new characters (33 glyphs).
• Some fixes and improvements (17 characters in various sizes/styles).

Visit the Terminus TTF homepage to download the new version.