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Streaming Radio Player: Standard Galactic Alphabet

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Prompted by Jacob’s comment about the most recent OLED garble:

RPi Streaming Player - Standard Galactic Alphabet
RPi Streaming Player – Standard Galactic Alphabet

If ya can’t fix it, feature it!

That’s the First SGA Font from the Standard Galactic Font origin story. I copied the font file to one of the streamers, then re-aimed the font setup:

#font1 = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf',14)
font1 = ImageFont.truetype('/home/pi/sga.ttf',14)
#font2 = ImageFont.truetype('/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf',11)
font2 = ImageFont.truetype('/home/pi/sga.ttf',11)

It looks surprisingly good on such a low-res display.

The user community seems divided over the update … [grin]

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  1. Streaming Radio Player: RPi and OLED Updates | The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning Avatar
    Streaming Radio Player: RPi and OLED Updates | The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

    […] The motivation for all this fuffing and fawing came from watching some OLEDs wake up completely blank or become garbled in one way or another. Evidently, my slower-speed SPI tweak didn’t quite solve the problem, although it did reduce the frequency of failures. I have decided, as a matter of principle, to not embrace the garble. […]