Jared, what about doing ClearType-like stuff on color screens?

hhp

Jared, i have same problems with my palm 5 too, grrr no more of my lovely palm bitmap fonts colection done on FE previously. Grrr. I can't wait more. Its sad. The FontHack 123 guy stop to answer to emails and seems to stop to be interested i think? Already no support for Cli

Jared:
Nice! Thanks for the FE tip. I'm taking
a look on it right now... Do you have any
specimen of your palm bitmap fonts?

Hrant:
Do you know if is there a Palm technology
similar to Cleartype? Coudn't find anything
on Palm's website (maybe it's time to join
their developers community ;)

hC

You don't really need any "technology" - you just need to choose your colors very carefully (assuming the font editor, not to mention the OS's font engine, allow colors) so that they render on the RGB lcd cells in a way that triples the horizontal resolution.

hhp

Ah, sounds interesting. That reminds me those
oldskool VGA Mode-X tweaked modes used to
simulate truecolor images.

hC

The incomparable Luc Devroye has a page the length of your torso of Palm font tool and typeface resources. (When does this man sleep?) That's about all I can offer, since I tend to stick with developing fonts for my Newton.

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/palm.html

Jared:

Okay, no problem. Don't waste your time
just to kill my curiosity

I've been playing around with fonthack123 and I
hope I could test some fonts soon.

Thanks a lot.

Yes, there is, and yes, I have designed several fonts for Palm OS. In my opinion, it's an ideal place to design bitmap fonts.

The leading package is probably Font Editor 1.9 by Symbioforge, which hasn't been updated in a while. It's at http://www.symbioforge.com/products.html. You'll need a "Hack" program to implement the fonts, however- Look for "FontHack123" which plugs into Xmaster or Hackmaster for that.

I recently contacted the developer of FE who assures me that a Palm OS 5 version is coming in the next few months. I'm trying to see if we can Beta it here for him at Typophile.

From my testing, FontHack123 won't currently work with OS 5 series Palm devices- Clearly these guys need to catch up. With the new high-res screens, I'm really wanting to design and implement some tighter bitmaps, which is not possible now.

Hugo, I'll have to dig, though some of the bitmaps I've posted here (Benson Caps, Benson Linear) all were born on the Palm Vx while riding trains to work.