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Greg T.:
I've spent some time recently trying to develop a Rockbox theme for the Sansa Clip Zip (96 x 96 screen) and have been frustrated by the lack of good, free, anti-aliased fonts. So I went to the bother of setting up a Rockbox development environment, downloaded some open source fonts from Google Fonts, and converted from *.ttf format to Rockbox's *.fnt format using Rockbox's convttf tool. In most cases, these are available in one-pixel increments between 12 to 20 pixels. For the time being, they can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?xe69ja577wbbvx6

I experimented some with an unofficial -L option (lighter hinting algorithm), by patching and recompiling the source code. (http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/412/). I did not document my use of this option particularly well, but it was helpful for some fonts at small sizes, particularly the Ubuntu font. (Ubuntu is widely available in Rockbox themes, but I had better luck rolling my own version.)

The included AA fonts and the convttf settings I used (aside from the -L setting) are as follows:

Ubuntu -c 1 -Ta 1 [the -c option wasn't needed when using the -L option]
Dosis -Ta 2 [note: the digits in this font are not monospaced]
Roboto -Ta 1
Roboto Condensed -Ta 1
Noto Sans -Ta 3
Droid Sans [no special settings]
DejaVu Sans [no special settings]
Source Sans Pro -Ta 2 -Td 1

Hope this helps someone out there.

saratoga:
Neat.  These should probably be added to the font pack.

lebellium:
Whaouh! Thanks dude! I may use some of them in my "lebellium Samsung-like" themes  :D

soap:
Very nice bit of work.  Thanks.

toehser:

--- Quote from: saratoga on May 16, 2013, 11:05:54 PM ---Neat.  These should probably be added to the font pack.

--- End quote ---

I concur!  Right now there is a "font pack" and a link for some "Ubuntu" converted fonts -

This should get a link and have the zip file placed on a rockbox host, also...

The Mediafire location is not the right place to preserve this... http://www.mediafire.com/download/xe69ja577wbbvx6/fonts.zip

... On further reflection, maybe some of these should be default fonts, not just in the font pack ... I'm just saying ...

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