core.gfx.fonts¶

Standard bitmap font mask data for kernel text rendering.

Overview¶

core.gfx.fonts provides a pre-baked bitmap font mask used by the kernel's software text renderer. The font data is stored as a large compile-time constant array of uint16 values (Std_Mask) that encodes the pixel patterns for the full printable ASCII character set. Each $FFFF entry represents an opaque (set) pixel; each $0000 represents a transparent (clear) pixel. The renderer in the video subsystem indexes into this array by character code and glyph row to determine which pixels to draw.

Dependencies¶

None.

Constants¶

Std_Mask¶

Std_Mask : Array[0..32768] of uint16;

A 32769-element array of uint16 values encoding the pixel masks for the standard kernel font. Each character occupies a fixed-width, fixed-height glyph cell. The array is indexed by (character_code * glyph_height * glyph_width) + (row * glyph_width) + column, with $FFFF indicating a set pixel and $0000 indicating a clear pixel.

Notes¶

The font data is a compile-time constant and requires no runtime initialisation. It occupies approximately 64 KiB in the kernel image (32769 × 2 bytes).

This unit contains only font data; no rendering functions are defined here. The actual rendering logic that consumes Std_Mask is located in the video driver subsystem.