Nice looking imagefonts?

Interesting... do you use style=SMOOTHFONT?

have a look at this:
(requires fedprm27p.ttf from here

Graphics 600,600,0
SetBlend ALPHABLEND

Local fonts:timagefont[5]

style=SMOOTHFONT
tf:tfont=tfont.Create("fonts/FeDPrm27P.ttf",.94,.1,style)
While 1
	y#=0
	txt$="hello there, you"
	For c=1 To 10
		size#=c*(1+10.0*MouseX()/600.0)
		y:+tf.height(size)
		tf.draw txt,0,y,size
		DrawLine 0,y,tf.width(txt,size),y
	Next
	Flip
	Cls
	
	If MouseHit(1)
		style=SMOOTHFONT-style
		tf:tfont=tfont.Create("fonts/FeDPrm27P.ttf",.94,.1,style)
	EndIf
	
	If AppTerminate() Or KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE)
		End
	EndIf
Wend
WaitKey

Function gety()
	While Not MouseHit(1)
		DrawText "hello there, you",0,0
		DrawLine 0,MouseY(),600,MouseY()
		Flip
		Cls
	Wend
	Return MouseY()
End Function

Type tfont
	Field h#
	Field jiggle#
	Field images:timagefont[5]
	Field scale#
	Field i
	
	Function Create:tfont(fname$,height#,jiggle#,style)
		tf:tfont=New tfont
		tf.h=height
		tf.jiggle=jiggle
		tf.makesizes fname,style
		Return tf
	End Function
	
	Method makesizes(fname$,style)
		For x=1 To 5
			images[x-1]=LoadImageFont(fname,2^(x+3),style)
		Next
	End Method
	
	Method setfont(size#)
		'i=(size-5)/10
		i=Int((Log(size)/Log(2))-3)
		If i>4 i=4
		If i<0 i=0
		SetImageFont images[i]
		scale#=size/(2^(i+4))
		SetScale scale,scale
	End Method
	
	Method draw(txt$,x,y,size#)
		setfont size
		DrawText txt+i+" ("+scale+") "+size,x,y-height(size)-jiggle*size
		SetScale 1,1
	End Method
	
	Method height#(size#)
		Return h*size
	End Method
	
	Method width#(txt$,size#)
		setfont size
		w#=TextWidth(txt)*scale
		SetScale 1,1
		Return w
	End Method
End Type

Left click to toggle smoothfont.

It looks like the blurriness is caused by (tri/bi)linear filtering. Is there any way to get bmax to do more complicated filtering? I suppose the text looks ok with smoothfont turned off, I'm not sure which I prefer.

I'm planning on having a good amount of text around the 20-30 pixel height mark, which is where text looks the worst with both methods, but is at least legible with smoothfont turned on.