Bitmap on the terminal
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Most people have higher resolution screens and all that nowadays, so bitmaps font would be really small for screens above 720p. But if you sit really close to the screen and really want a lot of text on the screen. You would probably use a true bitmap font. Because even if you are able to see the indiviual pixels on a screen, it doesn't matter because bitmap fonts are always sharp.

If you thought older machines with lower resolution screens are horrible because fonts are blurry and stuff (because of lower resolution) is just because you are meant to use bitmap or non-antialias fonts. I prefer true bitmap fonts because I really want sharpness even with more texts on the screen. If you did that with a TTF or anything, you would not be able to reduce the text size and still be able to sharply read it. It is not sharp. Sharpness matters a lot when reading. E-Ink screens are sharp because they do not do anti-aliasing, not doing anti-aliasing by definition is more sharper. but not doing anti aliasing.

Well, anti-aliasing, makes stuff smoother, it blurs the edges, so that it is more smooth, on high resolution screens, smoothing fonts are as much sharp as true bitmap fonts could be. Considering the price of a higher resolution screen and the fact that you are getting fake sharpness. It is not worth it. It was not like we couldn't get sharpness back then. It is just you are using the wrong font.

I get it. Programming fonts, ligatures, TTF, smooth, and probably 1080p screens DPI of maybe 120? use a font at maybe 14 or 16 DPI font size (equivalent to 24 and 28 pixelsize respectively). If ligatures matters a lot, true bitmaps are non-existant. But people were able to read code with just plain bitmaps. Higher resolution screens are not really required for programmers at all. What you require is maybe a taller screen. You are good with 720p screens. Smoothness and anti-aliasing is a fake sharpness as I said, you can tell when you look closer and when you realise that fake sharpness, you cannot go back to when you didn't see it.

So I consider true bitmap fonts, as true sharp warriors because they are sharp even if you look really closely on the screens where you are able to make out all the damn pixels even. You can still see that the text is sharp as heck! That is why bitmap fonts are fun. It is no hallucination of sharpness. And honestly a major + for people who read text on the terminal.