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by viler 2164 days ago
OK, then I think I get what you mean - scaling up the glyphs 2x and adding more bitmap detail, but perceptually sticking to the original shapes as closely as possible.

That's something I thought of in the past but it proved trickier than I expected to actually get nice enough results, so I never actually got very far with it but it's not impossible.

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Yep, it's basically high-res pixel art. So it needs a good artist, and a lot of time. I doubt anybody's likely to do it as a free project, hence why I mentioned paying for it - a crowdsourcing arrangement, perhaps