mafik
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2 years ago Right - the most important trick is to find a good font. The best ones have a lot of box-shapes (triangles, checkerboards, trapezoids). The one I used for sample1 is "Iosevka Fixed". Another nice one is "Julia Mono" (the one used on the interactive demo page).
Generally speaking you can roughly guess when a font will produce good graphics by looking at its size. Anything above 1MB has a good change of having decent set of glyphs.
Nice. I'm curious what font, emulator, width, etc were used to produce sample1.png? It looks crisper than example-result.png, which is what the result looks like on my setup.