7/6/2023 0 Comments Mudlet unoffical squaresoftSo here's hoping the anti-aliasing option in preferences will help. I compared several other common fonts in a similar fashion (Arial, Comic sans and Fixedsys) and each time I noticed the same thing. There is a screenshot of this at the bottom, the top being Mudlet and the bottom being CMUD (click on the image to open it in its own window, as the image is displaying strangely when it is embedded directly in the page).Īs you can see, Mudlet is displaying this font with much thicker characters. My screen is a 22" widescreen lcd, 1680X1050. Same size (10), same monitor, same font name. That said, in the process I also compared CMUD's Courier new, to Mudlet's Courier new. Just a personal preference, and possibly an uncommon one. I've compared Courier to Courier new in CMUD, and I think I actually prefer Courier. Okay, interesting point with the anti-aliasing. If the font cannot be loaded, the window system choses an illegal font i.e. There are thousands of fonts, so this is hardly surprising. Regarding the strange font after you imported a package from a friend: The answer is simple: Your friend has exported a profile that contained a font that is not available on your computer. This is due to missing code in Mudlet, but no problem if you know how to handle it.Ĥ. Regarding the y-axis clippings: just make the window a tiny little bit smaller or larger until those are gone. For you the font size will stay the same, but it will look a lot better as the AA engine has a lot more dots to use to render the font.ģ. Until then: Use a higher screen resolution and make the fonts larger. I'll add an option for this in the next version. I have actually forgotten about this request because most people were very satisfied with the default high quality AA font. This will make Mudlet display courier exactly like cmud. It has been suggested by several users to make an option to disable anti aliasing. However, in your case I can see that we need an option to disable anti aliasing. On higher resolution or larger font sizes, anti aliasing looks much better though and the resulting high quality text display is much easier on the eyes. On low resolutions in conjunction with small font sizes, non-anti aliased fonts look better because the resolution is simply not high enough. This is why it looks rugged and has lots of little holes in it. This has nothing to do with Mudlet's display engine, but with inherent font/resolution/AA variance on different computers, resolutions, font sizes and screens.Ģ. Solution -> larger fonts or look for a font that looks good on your screen/resolution. Mudlet is currently forcing anit aliasing which can indeed lead to clippings in the case of light writing on dark background if the font is too small for the used screen resolution. If you chose "Courier New" it should look better as this is an anti aliased font while Courier doesn't have AA-hinting. Is there anything that can be done about this?ġ. If I set the prompt to Courier in Mudlet, the display is very ugly, and nothing at all like how CMUD looks. Its not that font type is different between Mudlet and CMUD, though in this case CMUD is using Courier, while mudlet is not. A nice looking fixed width font, correctly spaced so that ascii art, maps or tables are displayed optimally, and no bloated/bold characters. The third screenshot is of CMUD, and it is what I would really like in Mudlet. It must be the font pack Mudlet uses (maybe because of it being cross-platform? I've noticed that fonts in general look different in Linux). It doesn't display ascii maps very well, but it does prove that Mudlet's display engine can display prompts nicely. As you can see, it is a very clearly defined font, quite easy to read. I can't find anywhere in his scripts that defines a font, but it displays in this font nonetheless. The second screenshot is a font that shows after I import a profile Leigh sent me. Something about the display engines capabilities. I figured that this was just going to be a part of mudlet to put up with. The first is of mudlet, a brand new profile, no changes.Īs you can see, the letters are fairly bold, and clipped - as though they are being displayed a little too close together.
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