Squeak-on-a-cellphone update: better fonts!

Thu 27 Aug 2020 20:14 CEST

Tony Garnock-Jones
#tech #smalltalk #thing #personal-computing #squeak-phone

Part of a series: #squeak-phone

I’ve made some minor image changes to adjust cached glyphs in TrueType fonts in Squeak when the DPI changes. Here are the results:

Squeak, under the illusion that the screen is 96 DPI Squeak, under the illusion that the screen is 96 DPI

Squeak, correctly configured for 535 DPI (!!) Squeak, correctly configured for 535 DPI (!!)

On the left, a stock, fresh-from-squeak.org unconfigured image, that wrongly believes the screen to be 96 DPI.

On the right, my dev image as I left it on my desktop PC, simply scped up to the phone and run, set to the correct 535 DPI resolution for the phone. Much better!