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Decker uses a custom bitmap font format. It provides the basic building blocks for creating and editing new fonts, and the examples directory includes a very basic font editor tool, along with some additional fonts: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker/blob/main/examples/decks/fontedit.deck

If an existing deck contains non-default fonts, you can import them into your own decks using the Font/DA Mover (File -> Resources...) I hope that, in time, Decker users will make and share a wider variety of fonts.

There isn't currently any way to directly convert from a .ttf into a Decker font, but if someone else wants to have a go at writing a conversion utility it could be very useful for other Decker enthusiasts!

If you already have a monospaced font in a GIF bitmap, it isn't too hard to use Lilt to do the conversion; I prepared a few fonts like this (which has a lot of unused glyphs and needed a custom-drawn ellipsis glyph):


Using a script like this:


Which produces an otherwise empty deck containing the newly created font.

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Ah! Gotcha! I’d already transported custom fonts from the example decks, I just wanted a few more to use - I’ll take a closer look at your script and do some experimentation in converting fonts and see what mileage I can get.


Thanks!