I'd like to increase the font size in Grub (v2.12, at least I think that's
the better alternative to just lowering the resolution) and opted to just
use a custom font as there seems to be an OTF version of "GNU Unifont",
though it seems to be jagged by design, but I'm running into issues. I
thought about just using Noto Mono Regular for it, as Noto is supposed to
always work and a monospaced font is recommended for easier setting of
letters, as Grub uses bitmap fonts. Now my issue is that on one hand, the
conversion to a bitmap font seems to be quite bad, the letters look really
jagged. On the other hand, it seems that despite Noto supposed to being
about no tofu, I actually get a lot of tofu. Both the up and down arrows in
the description text at the bottom of grubs boot selector and the border
around everything is just made up of tofu. And I tried converting the
font with both grub-mkfont and Grub Customizer, same result.

So what exactly are the requirements for fonts to be used in Grub so that
they are converted to PFF2 fonts in a higher quality and don't show tofu?

Best
Richard

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