no, thanks
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Wouldn't that scale horribly? I thought we got away from bitmap fonts to avoid that problem.
What people often fail to remember is that CRT displays rendered pixels differently than most screens today. Images didn't look as rigid because those older displays tended to blend pixels together a bit. It was analog aliasing, and it made sense.
Nobody liked or wanted blocky text back in the 80s or 90s, but we used the technology we had at the time.