Hello!

I've been trying to learn Tk by making a little retro game, and now I'm starting to feel like it finally doesn't look terrible. But one thing still does: the fonts. I can't figure out how to get the ordinary system fonts to work, and the built-in fonts are all so badly pixellated they look awkward even for my 90s-style game.

I'm using ActivePerl 5.20, on a Macbook Pro from 2015. I think part of the reason is the "Retina display"; if I understand it right, the latest high-res mac screens are basically pretending to be a much lower resolution, so that old programs won't look tiny, but they also don't benefit from the increased resolution. This affects all my Tk programs, effectively making the resolution a fraction of what it could be, which is of course pretty annoying generally. But there has to be some other reason the fonts look so awful. They also don't seem to be using any anti-aliasing; that could be part of the reason.

So I'd like to:

• ideally make my Tk programs use the actual resolution, not the nerfed Retina-thing
• get Tk to use other fonts, ideally specified with a font file
• figure out why the fonts look so bad and what else can be done about it

if anyone could help me with any of those. Thanks!

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