Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by tomcooks » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 10:08 AM UTC

Looks really nice, pity it doesn't seem to feature accented letters yet

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

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Post by mrweasel » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 10:09 AM UTC

Semiapies wrote: post #49

A font for people with excellent vision who want very much to fix that.

If people like fonts like that, it's great that it's available, but it's not for me any more.

My vision isn't even bad and I don't require glasses, but I have turned 40 and I want retina monitors and a 18pt font.

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

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Post by 0-_-0 » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 10:16 AM UTC

The Pico-8 has a 3-pixel wide font, desinged to be used with a 128×128 pixel IDE:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3760

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

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Post by euske » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 10:43 AM UTC

There are tiny Japanese fonts that support all Chinese characters. This means they have 7000+ characters with 8x8 (or even 6x8) grid, most of which are pretty legible IMO. It's amazing.

Misaki (8x8 pixels): https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm

k6x8 (6x8 pixels): https://littlelimit.net/k6x8.htm

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

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Post by Valodim » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 10:58 AM UTC

romeovs wrote: post #64

Hi 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 t…

> good to see other people taking it and running with it, fixing my oversights and improving things

The readme looks so polished that I was surprised about this. Perhaps add a note to this effect at the top, maybe point to one of the forks?

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

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 11:05 AM UTC

An old DOS game Metaltech had a very nice 3x5 font, i even reverse-engineered it and used it in some of my lab projects in the university. It looked really neat on 320*200 resolution.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaltech:_Earthsiege

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

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Post by parisianka » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

Nice work

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

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Post by urthor » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

euske wrote: post #74

There are tiny Japanese fonts that support all Chinese characters. This means they have 7000+ characters with 8x8 (or even 6x8) grid, most of which are pretty legible IMO. It's amazing. Misaki (8x8 pixels): https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm k6x8 (6x8 pixels): https://littlelimit.net/k6x8.htm

Ootl, why does the character set have "whisky" in the middle haha.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 11:16 AM UTC

beiller wrote: post #25

Question is the hash symbol (#) 4 pixels wide possible? I saw it there but it seems to me it requires at least 5 pixels.

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

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Post by PinguTS » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 11:19 AM UTC

urthor wrote: post #78

euske wrote: post #74

There are tiny Japanese fonts that support all Chinese characters. This means they have 7000+ characters with 8x8 (or even 6x8) grid, most of which are pretty legible IMO. It's amazing. Misaki (8x8 pixels): https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm k6x8 (6x8 pixels): https://littlelimit.net/k6x8.htm

Ootl, why does the character set have "whisky" in the middle haha.

Nope, that are just some samples that show the usage of the fonts.