Nerding it up like a nerdy nerder
Today I got around to packaging up the BDF-font-handling Python library I've been sporadically tinkering with for the past few months, adding licensing information and actually telling the world about it. It turns out that it's actually pretty damn easy to do, once you've got your setup.py written. In about ten minutes, I'd created a PyPI record for my software and populated it with a source archive, and a pre-built tarball for Windows and Linux.
In other news, I've successfully used that BDF font library to create a chimera of the classic Macintosh fonts "Chicago" and "Geneva" which I call "Chinega". My intention was to make GNOME look more like the classic Macintosh interface by having all the normal-sized interface items use Chicago, and all the smaller interface items use Geneva... in principle it works, but whereas the classic Macintosh interface used smaller-sized fonts frequently, GNOME doesn't - by far the majority of text shows up in chunky, aggressive Chicago, which is rather tiring.
To show the effect I'd hoped for, here's the nicest looking example I could find:
In other news, I've successfully used that BDF font library to create a chimera of the classic Macintosh fonts "Chicago" and "Geneva" which I call "Chinega". My intention was to make GNOME look more like the classic Macintosh interface by having all the normal-sized interface items use Chicago, and all the smaller interface items use Geneva... in principle it works, but whereas the classic Macintosh interface used smaller-sized fonts frequently, GNOME doesn't - by far the majority of text shows up in chunky, aggressive Chicago, which is rather tiring.
To show the effect I'd hoped for, here's the nicest looking example I could find: