What software is available for designing pixel fonts with? It's something I've always wanted to try.
Fontstruct is great > https://fontstruct.com/
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
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Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#62What software is available for designing pixel fonts with? It's something I've always wanted to try.
I've used both gbdfed[1] and Fontforge[2] to edit fonts[3][4]...
[1]: https://github.com/andrewshadura/gbdfed
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#63Not a monospace font, but I made this:
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#64Hi everyone, quite unexpected to see this on the frontpage of Hacker News!
I made this so many years ago but I'm not using it myself anymore and I haven't been maintaining it.
I was (and am) also very inexperienced making fonts so the result was "good enough for my own limited use case" but too broken for general use, so it's good to see other people taking it and running with it, fixing my oversights and improving things.
Questions or suggestions are more than welcome.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#65Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#66Oh I actually made a compact font too, but it's 7x13 (most characters are 5px wide). Don't have a name for it yet. The first version was bitmap, but at some point I figured out how to make macOS render vector fonts pixel-perfectly and so made a vector version too.
My way of making it is questionable too — I drew characters as SVGs (because font editors suck way too much) and wrote a php script to convert them to an .sfd file that I could then open in FontForge and export in whatever format I want.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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: # ### # ### # ### #
This. It’s what the C64 (and I guess many/most early home computers) did. No need to draw the whole vertical line if it doesn’t reasonably fit.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#68This 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 spac…
> some glyphs are bigger than the 5px by 11px bounding box
Out of curiosity, which ones? Did anyone find them?
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#69This 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 spac…
> some glyphs are bigger than the 5px by 11px bounding box Out of curiosity, which ones? Did anyone find them?
Looks like the $ sign is 5px wide if you look at the image.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#70Looks exactly like all the tonnes of 4 and 5px wide fonts commonly seen on home computer systems from the 80s and 90s with relatively low resolution, like the Amiga, Atari ST etc.