doctor_x Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I’m going to be putting an Atari site together that will basically just consist of a gridlist and I would like to use Atari fonts/Graphics to do it.. Is there an app for the PC that is taylor made to do this perhaps, or do I simply need to hunt down a font and save the items as graphics so the user gets it as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baktra Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 4 hours ago, doctor_x said: I’m going to be putting an Atari site together that will basically just consist of a gridlist and I would like to use Atari fonts/Graphics to do it.. Is there an app for the PC that is taylor made to do this perhaps, or do I simply need to hunt down a font and save the items as graphics so the user gets it as well? There are ttf fonts emulating atari character set. The problem is how to deliver the font to the web viewers. I guess there is a mechanism. Google webfonts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 There's computer fonts as well as close matches for the futuristic one used on most packaging in the Warner era. The ones I have matching the packaging "SF Atarian" and variants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwc Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 A massive collection of Atari 8-bit fonts in PC True Type (TTF) format can be found on@Mr Robot's site here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 Like I was saying - I would likely just save the text as an image to present the same font to everyone regardless of whether or not it was installed rather than dick with people not seeing the expected font.... Thanks for the responses guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Is this a web site? You can embed custom TTF fonts in web pages: https://www.dummies.com/web-design-development/html5-and-css3/how-to-use-embedded-fonts-for-your-html5-and-css3-based-web-pages/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, zzip said: Is this a web site? You can embed custom TTF fonts in web pages: https://www.dummies.com/web-design-development/html5-and-css3/how-to-use-embedded-fonts-for-your-html5-and-css3-based-web-pages/ Cool thank you.. yes it will be a very simple website that consists of all Atari BBS software (lots more than what Jason Scott has) that have been found as well as those that are still sought....Likely just Atari 8 - but possibly ST as well since I’ve found a few unknowns for it too.... likely just a single page site as a matter of fact.. but i want it to look kick ass and be atari themed. Edited August 26, 2020 by doctor_x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamm Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Definitely use web fonts and avoid using images for text. Not only are the images not text searchable, but they won’t scale well for different displays. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossum Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 A working example of this (embedded atari web fonts) can be found here https://github.com/rossumur/esp_8_bit/blob/master/atr_image_explorer.htm cheers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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