Thanks you so much vr, Unifont requires a too big font size, i was hoping to stay between 8 to 12 pixels I found PixelOperator8.ttf as a very good compromise, so let me share my findings in case someone else need it:

use strict;
use warnings;

use utf8;
use Imager;
use Data::Dumper;

my $img = Imager->new(xsize=>128, ysize=>8);
my $small = Imager::Font->new(file => 'PixelOperator/PixelOperator8.tt
+f') or die;

$small->align(string => "Færevåg Øst",
    size => 8,
    x => 0,
    y => 0,
    valign => 'top',
    image => $img);

for (my $y=0; $y<8; $y++) {
    for (my $x=0; $x<128; $x++) {
        my $col = $img->getpixel(x=>$x, y=>$y);
        print [$col->rgba()]->[0] ? "O" : " ";
    }
    print "\n";
}
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OOOOO                                   OOO               OOO O       
+          
O                                      O   O             O   O        
+  O       
O       OOO OOO   O  OO   OOO   O   O   OOO    OOOO      O  OO   OOO  
+ OOOO     
OOO        O   O  O O    O   O  O   O      O  O   O      O O O  O     
+  O       
O       OOOOOOOO  OO     OOOOO  O   O   OOOO  O   O      OO  O   OOO  
+  O       
O      O   O      O      O       O O   O   O   OOOO      O   O      O 
+  O       
O       OOO OOO   O       OOO     O     OOOO      O     O OOO   OOOO  
+   OOO    
                                               OOO
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It is a very limited subset of unicode, but good enough for my case and i can fall back to unifont with bigger size conditionally. HTH

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