Using ssd1306 with larger fonts - a solution

[John57]

Hello,

Info that may be useful.

I have just interfaced a ssd1306 to the pico and is working well. However the distributed ssd1306 only supports a fixed small 8x8 pixel font. Which is small and indistinct on such a screen.

I came across a project (https://github.com/mchobby/freetype-generator.git) that creates compact pixel format files at user defined sizes from ttf fonts. Also included is a micropython class that writes text strings into the displaybuffer using one of those fonts. The pixel files are created on a full python machine (a few are supplied pre-formatted) and copied along with the upython module onto the micropython device. A 23 high pixel veramono font is only 3.5kb.

Cheers

[pythoncoder]

See font-to-py which can store fonts in flash, reducing RAM usage by an order of magnitude.