How do you update a 30-year old pixel font to make it more suitable for today?
The pixel-art OpenTTD fonts are iconic, but were designed for 640x480 CRT monitors rather than today's 4k monsters. Without the horizontal smoothing of CRT scanlines, modern pixel-perfect rendering and 2x or 4x upscaling of the old bitmap/sprite-based fonts makes the text jagged and hard to read.
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