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Expand Up @@ -82,6 +82,23 @@ 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 is a replacement for legacy bitmap fonts, such as the [font8x8 crate](https://crates.io/crates/font8x8).
It is suited to print high quality/good looking text to a framebuffer in bootloaders, kernels, and similar environments,
where you don't want to use the FPU or you can't.

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.
Strictly speaking, it encodes each pixel as byte and not bit. However, the term bitmap font is used
because it is known when it comes to fonts without calculation/rasterization overhead in low level environments.

An example of the outcome can be seen in [PR#213](https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootloader/pull/213) of the bootloader crate.

## Join Us?

Are you interested in Rust-based operating system development? Our `rust-osdev` organization is always open to new members and new projects. Just let us know if you want to join! A good way for getting in touch is our [gitter channel](https://gitter.im/rust-osdev/Lobby).
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