muesli

I should probably have done this years ago, but here's my latest work on PineTime's font rendering.

Anti-aliasing, kerning, subpixel hinting. Dropped the monospace font. Looks so crisp on the watch's display!

Before and after:

Mar 17 at 1:34pmWeb
Show threadSoftwarewolfMar 17
@fribbledom I had no idea you worked on the PineTime software. Neat! 
Show threadEthan BlackMar 17
@fribbledom I personally am fond of the Before style, but I can see the After style being better by a more objective standard.
Nice job! :D
Show threadKay Ohtie 🔜 FWAMar 17

@fribbledom Well dang that looks a heck of a lot better!

I really wanted to like my PineTime, but between hardware issues when recharging it causing it to bootloop that flashing or wiping wouldn't fix, and the single red LED HR monitor being poor at doing it accurately, and a few other things I couldn't stick with it.

It's nice to see it still alive of a community though!

Show threadcopyrightsMar 17
@fribbledom nice, will there be a PR?
Show threadmuesliMar 17

@copyrights

I've started with a couple of PRs already, we'll see how the community reacts to it.

If you want to try it out right now: https://github.com/muesli/InfiniTime/tree/fontroboto

Alternatively, I can provide a precompiled firmware image. Just let me know.

GitHub - muesli/InfiniTime at fontroboto

Firmware for Pinetime smartwatch written in C/C++ and based on FreeRTOS - muesli/InfiniTime

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Show threadLinux in a BitMar 17
@fribbledom
 I didn't know it was possible with the hardware. This is awesome!