blackosx Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Lol.. I don't know about that, but thanks. I'm happy with them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 7 hours ago, blackosx said: Since OpenCore can now boot all versions of macOS I've added the missing 10.4-10.11 icons from my Set3 range. These include drive icons and also badge icons. Here's a preview.... Very very nice!!! I like all them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 On 8/14/2020 at 10:48 AM, blackosx said: I've been playing around with OpenCore's font support and think how it's currently done is great, though it limits the possibilities of customisation (maybe by design to keep it more in line with Apple's UI) Font size cannot change much as the lineHeight must be 12 or 24 (if x2) for OpenCore to accept it. Fonts PNGs can only be mono, so no coloured fonts, and shading will prove difficult due to the tight random placement of the glyphs in the AngelCode BMF. Having said that I've generated some different ones to maybe give the UI a slightly different look, if wanted. Here's an image showing different slices of a selection to show each font looks in the UI Reveal hidden contents Aller.zip Calibri.zip Candara.zip ebrima.zip framd.zip FuturaLight.zip gadugi.zip Tahoma.zip Verdana.zip I just replaced OC's stock Font folder from acidanthera/OcBinaryData/Resources/ with the Font folder of the framd font, but now I only get a grey screen after the boot chime. Here's my current config: Do these fonts require a different setting somewhere, or even special theme resources? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 Yeah, the fonts I generated back in August last year do indeed seem to be incorrect and cause OC to hang. It’s only recently been discovered (check the last 20 posts or so). They did work for me at the time but I guess they weren’t thoroughly tested. I know @cecekpawon recently posted a new font here which I haven’t had a chance to test yet but I believe that will work. Apologies for any inconvenience. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 (edited) ah OK - thanks for replying so quickly. @blackosx could you add what you just wrote at the top of your font posting so I'm the last to stumble over this? I saw cecekpawon's recent post, but the Candara font is not a gain but a regression in terms of better readability which is what I'm trying to achieve w/o lowering the res. Is there any chance you could tweak your fonts from back then for current OC conformity? Esp. framd, Verdana and Aller really look great on your screenshot composite. Edited February 27, 2021 by BuXb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 Sure. Done. (Thanks for the reminder. This week has been full on with work, plus the extra time I’ve been putting in to these icons I hadn’t got round to it yet.) I will look further in to the fonts next week. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Awesome! The new icons are really neat. I'm back to the stock font folder for now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) On 2/26/2021 at 11:55 AM, cecekpawon said: I can confirm OpenCanopy actually hangs with "Do not include kerning pairs" option leave unchecked in Font Settings. Thank you! It was indeed the kerning pairs causing the problem Thanks to the note from @cecekpawon about the kerning pairs, the fonts issue has been resolved and I've now generated new font images which I've successfully tested in Qemu (though only at 1x Scale). Aller_Bd.zip calibri.zip Candara.zip corbel.zip ebrima.zip framd.zip FuturaLight.zip gadugi.zip Edited February 28, 2021 by blackosx 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) @blackosx you're breaking the rules of physics - officially we're not capable of faster than the speed of The framd indeed is slightly better readable @ UIScale=1 on my screen (15,6" @ 1920x1080) than the stock OC font - still not as comfortable as it could (and as in Clover GUI with exact same background). Have you ever tried the Terminus font, by any chance? It ranks highest on 6 Best bitmap programming fonts as of 2021 - Slant, and the dev is fine-tuning it constantly (last time 2 months ago) Edited February 28, 2021 by BuXb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 Yeah, faster than expected. I managed to grab some time today to take a look. Thanks for the nod towards the Terminus typeface. I’ll try it when I next get to my machine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 @BuXb Here you go... Terminus.zip TerminusBold.zip It may be a great programming font but I don't think it works too well in this instance. framd is still the strongest, so far... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anto65 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Mayday! it's been half an hour I've been fighting with icons but I can't win , practically I added an icon for Ubuntu I can't see it I renamed it in Ubuntu, Other, grubx64.efi with and without Modern variant ... it doesn't work ,small help? thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) @blackosx wow, quite a magician you are - kudos. Yes, you're right. I went straight for the bolder type face but the numbers are too jagged + the font is too small. So for now, until OC allows scaling of some sorts e.g. via a setting for dedicated 13px/ 14px/ 15px pixel fonts, framd seems like the best choice. I'd even say the OC team might want to choose it as default. @antuneddu haven't tried myself but saved this link in my bookmarks Edited February 28, 2021 by BuXb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anto65 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 5 minutes ago, BuXb said: @blackosx wow, quite a magician you are - kudos. Yes, you're right. I went straight for the bolder type face but the numbers are too jagged + the font is too small. So for now, until OC allows scaling of some sorts e.g. via a setting for dedicated 13px/ 14px/ 15px pixel fonts, framd seems like the best choice. I'd even say the OC team might want to choose it as default. @antuneddu haven't tried myself but saved this link in my bookmarks thanks, but I already have the entries for both Windows and Ubuntu defined in the config and from opencore I boot all of them, the problem does not show me the right icons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 4 hours ago, blackosx said: ... Thanks to the note from @cecekpawon about the kerning pairs, the fonts issue has been resolved and I've now generated new font images which I've successfully tested in Qemu (though only at 1x Scale)... Thank you, excellent work, now we have a set of fonts to choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) @antuneddu did you try the suggestion here? @BuXb Thanks. Moving forward for now, I think it’s just a case of finding the right font per user as I believe OpenCanopy’s aim is to be as close to Apple’s boot picker as possible. So as far as ever being able to use a larger font will be down to future dev changes if they wish to allow that. @miliuco Thanks. Last August when I first looked in to the fonts, I created a bash script to call the appropriate programs (for example, dpfontbaker) to generate the font files.. this is using MacOS and not the recommended method with Windows. But it seems to work pretty well. If it’s of use to others I may post this script here so anyone can generate their own font images? Edited February 28, 2021 by blackosx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anto65 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 15 minutes ago, blackosx said: @antuneddu did you try the suggestion here? @BuXb Thanks. Moving forward for now, I think it’s just a case of finding the right font per user as I believe OpenCanopy’s aim is to be as close to Apple’s boot picker as possible. So as far as ever being able to use a larger font will be down to future dev changes if they wish to allow that. @miliuco Thanks. Last August when I first looked in to the fonts, I created a bash script to call the appropriate programs (for example, dpfontbaker) to generate the font files.. this is using MacOS and not the recommended method with Windows. But it seems to work pretty well. If it’s of use to others I may post this script here so anyone can generate their own font images? As usual you are the n1 Thank you. This then to copy the icon ... you never stop learning 3 minutes ago, antuneddu said: As usual you are the n1 Thank you. This then to copy the icon ... you never stop learning By the way, as you can see, I put the new characters. Aller_Bd .... works great 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 @blackosx re. "If it’s of use to others I may post this script here so anyone can generate their own font images?" splendid I'd call that! @antuneddu right on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 .. oh, and here's a background I just made for 1920 x 1080 (on the 1st = retina slice only a small thumbnail for preview in Finder) which you might like Background.icns.zip 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted February 28, 2021 Author Share Posted February 28, 2021 @antuneddu Good to hear the Ubuntu icon now works and you’re enjoying the fonts. @BuXb Sure. I’ll get it ready to post this week (though it may be quicker.. lol). I can’t view that background file easily on my mobile so I’ll look at it when next on my machine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matgen84 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 16 hours ago, blackosx said: Thank you! It was indeed the kerning pairs causing the problem Thanks to the note from @cecekpawon about the kerning pairs, the fonts issue has been resolved and I've now generated new font images which I've successfully tested in Qemu (though only at 1x Scale). Great Job. @blackosx Do you plan to put yours fonts on the GitHub OpencanopyIcons repo ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Here's v0.2 of the font script ocFontFileGenerator Credits: dpfb from https://github.com/usr-sse2/dpfontbaker FNTTools from https://github.com/AuroraBertaOldham/FNTTools/releases/tag/v1.0 Usage: 1 - Place Truetype (.ttf) font files in the 'TrueTypeFontToProcess' directory 2 - Double click the ocFontFileGenerator.command 3 - Resulting font files will be in the 'ProcessedFonts' directory It's archived as .lzma which you can uncompress using something like cvad's LZMAnoGUI64 for example. ocFontFileGenerator_v0.2.tar.lzma Note: From memory, I believe not all fonts will successfully convert due to their lineheight at a given font size. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Matgen84 said: Great Job. @blackosx Do you plan to put yours fonts on the GitHub OpencanopyIcons repo ! No plans to host any font files, but hopefully users can now create their own files with the above ocFontFileGenerator script. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme™ Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 @antuneddu Hi, possible to share your theme - 2560x1440 resolution - with icons? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anto65 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Extreme™ said: @antuneddu Hi, possible to share your theme - 2560x1440 resolution - with icons? Thank you! Of course, why not PickerVariant = Modern let me know if the resolution is ok DP-2560x1440.zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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