Re: font fallback issues

On Fri, 24 May 2024 00:25:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

I wanted to set up a fallback bitmap-unicode font
(https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfax/) as backup,
because all the normal text is very blurry, but I couldn't figure it
out.

I think nowadays we use Google’s “Noto” outline fonts for this purpose, as
the results look much better than bitmap fonts.

I think the fallback mechanism is internal to the different apps’ text-
rendering engines; they should just make use of this automatically.