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Hands-On Graphics Without X11

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83 points ingve | 4 comments | 17 Jan 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. seba_dos1 ◴[18 Jan 25 00:52 UTC] No.42744781[source]▶
> Same font, same colors, same… everything? Other than for the actual text they display, they look identical, don’t they?

Funny to see that written under two screenshots with clearly different fonts, and even different colors (though not so clearly; but still different enough to make me check).

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2. jmmv ◴[18 Jan 25 01:04 UTC] No.42744841[source]▶
It’s the same font data but not the same rendering code. The spacing between the characters is probably different.
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3. seba_dos1 ◴[18 Jan 25 01:27 UTC] No.42744942[source]▶
It's not. Just look at it please! Glyphs are completely different. One font is serif, one is sans-serif. It's the most obvious when you look at p, y, r, a, s...
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4. jmmv ◴[18 Jan 25 01:34 UTC] No.42744984{3}[source]▶
Hah, I was convinced I picked the same font file from NetBSD... and didn't really notice the difference on the small screen I'm running this on!