Surprisingly readable! It seems quite usable if I move the screen a bit closer (at the wrist of my extended arm), but it gives me eyestrain at my preferred distance (at the tip of the fingers). Maybe I need better glasses... or better eyes. :/
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
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Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#12so this is only for OSX?
You should be able to use this on any operating system that can use (or convert) .bdf font files.
For example:
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#13so this is only for OSX?
Quite the opposite; Xorg can handle BDF fonts natively.
Of course in modern applications, the client renders the font, so see e.g. https://gabusc.us/posts/bitmap-fonts-on-linux/ for how to set that up
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#14Wow. I've been using 5px wide Fixed[1] for years because I'd never seen another font that is as readable that small, but this seems pretty nice. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface)
There are a fair amount of what you'll see described as 5px wide fonts, but are actually 4px wide. Just that every character has a blank column on the far right so that you can simplistically put chars one after the other.
So you sometimes have to actually look at, for example, the H or W glyph to see if they really mean "5px wide" or not.
This image, for example, is the "5x8 Spleen" font. If you zoom in, though, you can see it's really a 4px wide font: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b2fa71fde615bd5510b5e9cb9...
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#15Nice!
Nitpick though -- by standard convention for terminal fonts shouldn't it be called a 5px wide font? (4px for the letterform, 1px in between.) Since they're sized according to the pixels available for each character.
I was really wondering how on earth letters would be clear with just 3px left for the letterform... :S
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#16I didn't realize people were using fonts to do things like visualize data. Is that common? Are there other fonts that are suitable for this?
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#17Now that just makes me feel old. Would have loved this when I was younger. Presbyopia is no fun.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#18I didn't realize people were using fonts to do things like visualize data. Is that common? Are there other fonts that are suitable for this?
It's definitely niche, and I seem to recall some really interesting fonts that did interesting things that encouraged some really wacky and neat projects, but I can't recall names...
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#19There used to be 4-pixel wide fonts (actually 3-pixels plus 1-pixel space) to get 70 columns of text on a 280x192 Apple ][.
See the software "Supertext 40/56/70"
https://books.google.com/books?id=ATAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=P...
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#20If anyone's looking for a bitmap/pixel font that covers many symbols, including all necessary powerline symbols and a large portion of the various nerd font symbols, I can't recommend Cozette[0] enough. Recently the author has began updating and releasing new versions after a hiatus. Also, if you use the otf version of the font instead of the bitmap/otb version you can still get it to look like a pixel perfect bitmap font by setting the font to a specific size in the application, usually size 9 or 9.5 depending on the app or terminal.