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Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow (automaton-media.com)
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[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Modern fonts have extra stuff to make rendering better.
Like hinting, which changes subpixel representations.

Without those, you wouldn't like the look of something like a character with a height of 10px on a 1080p display and would have to use way higher DPI stuff, with characters taking more pixels.
Won't be unusable though. Automatically done anti-aliasing tends to be good enough too.

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