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Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by infogulch »

This is great! Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since 2016 and isn't suitable for applications outside Terminal.app. But apparently someone else took up the mantle and rebuilt it to solve those issues and published it as creep2:

https://github.com/raymond-w-ko/creep2

> I love romeovs's creep font, but I think you could only use it well in Apple's Terminal.app because it has negative line and character width spacing, which the font requires to be spaced correctly. The root cause of this appears to be because some glyphs are bigger than the 5px by 11px bounding box, causing most terminals to think a much bigger box is necessary for the general ASCII glyphs.

> In order to fix this issue, I manually hand painted all the glyphs from the 'creep' font in fontforge.

Awesome! I just wish creep2 added some of those sweet demo photos that are in the creep README.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by basilgohar »

tooltower wrote: post #40

Slight tangent: Does anyone know what software this project is using to design this? I couldn't easily tell from their file extensions. Or rather, do people have general recommendations for good, open source, font designing software on a standard Linux machine?

Fontforge [0] seems to be the one that I've heard about and even played with a bit in the past.

[0] https://fontforge.org/en-US/

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by IgorPartola »

malux85 wrote: post #23
IgorPartola wrote: post #2

This is fun. As I’m working on my little hobby project that is custom air quality meters I am using 128x64 screens that are about an inch on the diagonal. I ended up having to create a custom pixel font that would work for both 6pt and 8pt height plus some icons in each. It’s been a really fun experience and rewarding too.

This project sounds cool, I’d love to see a blog post about it and some pictures!

I’ll post it to HN when I put it all together.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by montroser »

chmod775 wrote: post #34
Dylan16807 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the M and W I don't think "mathematically possible" is the criteria here.

Here's some options that fit in 4 pixels: https://i.imgur.com/LtQ6eb7.png Some of these can look like $ if they're really tiny, but generally you'll need a while to figure out what's they're supposed to mean if you don't know what you're looking for.

Nice. Third from the left on top is great -- pretty unambiguous, and consistent with the w's and m's.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by femto »

chmod775 wrote: post #34
Dylan16807 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the M and W I don't think "mathematically possible" is the criteria here.

Here's some options that fit in 4 pixels: https://i.imgur.com/LtQ6eb7.png Some of these can look like $ if they're really tiny, but generally you'll need a while to figure out what's they're supposed to mean if you don't know what you're looking for.

or:

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Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by sp332 »

jolmg wrote: post #9

Wow. 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's a font called Flea's Knees that's sort-of 3 pixels wide. The pixels are different colors and it relies on LCD subpixel spacing to create the light-and-dark patterns. https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030013/http://www.typoph...
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