Paul Hardy of GNU Unifont fame writes,

The open area inside the rectangle where Fontforge draws sample glyphs is exactly 16 pixels tall, the same height as Unifont glyphs.

Is there any chance of tweaking Fontforge for the next release so that if Unifont is installed the Fotnforge sample glyphs are rendered as 16 pixels tall, and either 8 or 16 pixels wide? The glyphs would look razor-sharp then so their quality would be greatly improved.

DONE :)

Most of the glyphs except some CJK have a margin of blank pixels on top and bottom, so most wouldn't touch the rectangle top and bottom boundaries. You can scroll through the CJK ideographs in Fontforge to get a better idea of the blurring consequences.

Installing the TrueType version of Unifont, then using Fontforge to look at the PCF (or BDF) version gives the best indication, because with a bitmap font Fontforge will give an anti-aliased, pixel-by-pixel rendering.

Along those lines, would you like me to make an SBIT version of Unifont part of future TrueTupe packages for GNU/Linux, along with the non-SBIT version? I'd have to name it something like "Unifont_SBIT". Then Fontforge could use that font if it's installed; if not, it could use "Unifont" if that's installed, and if not then fall back to some system font.

With Unifont being 16 pixels tall, and the rectangular sample box having 16 rows for display, it does seem a match made in heaven. :-)