Can I fix the Pixl.js font?

Hi Scott,

That'd be great! Yes, the vector font is a bit of a pain - it was an attempt to balance flash memory usage with visual quality, but at the end of a day it was made with an algorithm and there wasn't as much effort put in as there could have been :)

To add to this at one point in the past the font had quite a few more points in it, but then I had to make it lower resolution because on some platforms I was running out of flash memory.

We could potentially create a new font with higher quality and use it on platforms that do have enough memory though.

I guess you figured out that there's a built-in (small) bitmap font as well, and you can drag in other bitmap fonts if you need? http://www.espruino.com/Fonts

The actual vector font is at:

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/master/libs/graphics/vector_font.h

and the rendering code is:

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/master/libs/graphics/graphics.c#L416

As far as I recall:

• The data is in a .h file - there's no good reason for that :)
  
• vectorFonts[ch - vectorFontOffset] contains the width and the number of vertices. We just iterate through summing the vertex count to get the actual offset in vectorFontPolys (rather than using a 16 bit index for each character)
  
• vectorFontPolys contains the vertices as 7 bit unsigned X/Y pairs. It's just a series of regular polygons, and the top bit of 'Y' marks when one polygon ends
  
• The actual font is only 96 high out of the 128 value range to allow for some overshoot - eg on W where the font is wider than it is high.
  
• The font code is scattered with IN_FLASH_MEMORY and READ_FLASH_UINT8 defines - these are just for the ESP8266 as it hates reading unaligned data from flash memory.
  
  

The code I used to generate it isn't shared as it relies on a whole bunch of code I had lying around from another project that may not be shareable. I could send it to you personally but it's obviously not doing such a good job, so it may be better to just start from scratch.