new crate: phip1611/noto-sans-mono-bitmap-rs (#86)

Author: phip1611

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@@ -82,6 +82,28 @@ Colin Finck will [talk about NTFS](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/misc_n
 The talk is on Saturday, 5 February at 17:00 (CET, UTC+1).
 The conference is virtual and admission is free.
 
+
+### [`phip1611/noto-sans-mono-bitmap-rs`](https://github.com/phip1611/noto-sans-mono-bitmap-rs)
+
+<span class="gray">(Section written by [@phip1611](https://github.com/phip1611))</span>
+
+Philipp Schuster released an initial version of his [noto-sans-mono-bitmap](https://github.com/phip1611/noto-sans-mono-bitmap-rs)
+crate this month. It provides a pre-rasterized bitmap font from *Noto Sans Mono*, an open font from Google.
+The crate is a replacement for legacy bitmap fonts, such as the [font8x8 crate](https://crates.io/crates/font8x8).
+It is suitable for printing high quality/nice looking text to a framebuffer in bootloaders, kernels and similar 
+environments where you don't want or can't use the FPU.
+
+To avoid CPU intensive soft float workloads, the crate contains pre-rendered symbols from the [Noto Sans Mono font](https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Mono)
+in different sizes and font weights (light, regular, bold) as Rust constants paired with a convenient getter function.
+
+![Symbols from the crate 'noto-sans-mono-bitmap' in an UEFI framebuffer.](framebuffer-font-noto-sans-mono.png "Symbols from the crate 'noto-sans-mono-bitmap' in an UEFI framebuffer.")
+
+The screenshot above shows text that is rendered into an UEFI framebuffer using the bitmap font 
+from `noto-sans-mono-bitmap`.
+
+An example of usage can be found in [PR#213](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/213) of the 
+`rust-osdev/bootloader` crate, where this crate was merged and replaced `font8x8`.
+
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