Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Qianqian Fang]

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Is it possible to have a font with only these characters plus if
> necessary some computer-specific characters? I don't expect users to
> write poems in grub and so such reduced font would be well-suited for
> applications when size matters (e.g. embedding grub2 into flash rom)
>   
certainly we can. However the problem is I don't have char-frequency
statistics for Japanese Kanji/Korean Hanja, also even for Chinese,
it's from 1980s.

We can try IICore [1], which has about 10,000 char.

[1] http://www.ogcio.gov.hk/ccli/eng/structure/iicorecompare.html

> Another question: are glyphs imported into unifont from ttf fonts are
> vector-based?
>   

no, they are manually drawn, similar for WenQuanYi's bitmaps. Only that
way, you can ensure the clearest look in small glyph sizes (and
it took years).