I spent the whole day working on the English glyphs. I wasn't happy with the ugly look in the previous entry, so I took a screenshot of an anti-aliased font, zoomed in, and started a pixel-by-pixel struggle of epic proportions, crafting the glyphs by hand, in C. I could've probably written a program to do it, but I sometimes like to brute-force my way through things (especially when I know it's going to take less than a day). Here's how it looks like now:



Each glyph is a 14x8 array of uint8s. Each element takes a value from 0 to 9, where 0 represents the background color and 9 represents the foreground (text) color. The renderer then converts this number to a a floating point value [0, 1] and uses it for blending. The only downside to this so far is that the glyph representations are no longer clear in the code:



Now, I really have one thing to say before going off to sleep: Rawrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.