Subj : SBBS Font Viewer?
To   : Wang Bu
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Sep 13 2025 18:36:38

  Re: SBBS Font Viewer?
  By: Wang Bu to All on Sun Sep 14 2025 07:44 am

 > Hello!
 >
 > I'm having fun playing around with the different fonts found in SBBS. I also
 > recently installed the LORD2 font file in SBBS which allowed me to use it in
 > my LORD2 CNW door game.
 >
 > Just wondering though, is there an existing "font viewer" app available that
 > I can use so I can just browse through the fonts and see how it looks like,
 > rather than me trying them out on my bbs manually everytime?

There's exec/fonttest.js, included with Synchronet, which requires a font-capable terminal (e.g. SyncTERM).

For running locally (no terminal needed), there's programs like this one:
https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-font-editor/
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