We need to go back to fixed width all caps green text on black background for everything.
Eventually blue text on black background, but that's as far as I want to go.
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
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Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#82Haha All I can think about is how I need to whip out my strong spectacles. Thank goodness the era of using tiny fonts in UI design is mostly over and people have realized that us visually impaired folk still need to work. Still, a nice project
> my strong spectacles
With some VR HMDs, like Lenovo Explorer WMR, the strong lenses magnify pixels big enough to 'easily' see separately, in the clear center of the field of view. But don't provide many such clear pixels. So for editing code, using an HMD as non-VR terminal, I used tiny fonts (before switching to subpixel rendering of slightly larger fonts).
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#83> I love you all, so please use this font as much as you like for free. However, I would like to make sure you provide others the same liberty in creep's new incarnations. Therefore creep is licensed under the MIT License. Happy it’s permissively licensed under MIT, but I wonder if the author intended to use a sticky license instead.
What’s a sticky licence?
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#84Earlier 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.
> It's just not mathematically possible to draw a proper "$" 4 pixels wide
> Here's some options that fit in 4 pixels
So which is it?
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#85This 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…
Thanks for the link! My tiny little display attached to RPi is very much looking forward to trying it out.
Awesome use case, thanks for the idea!
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#86What software is available for designing pixel fonts with? It's something I've always wanted to try.
This one has a web UI and exports JSON: http://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#87> I love you all, so please use this font as much as you like for free. However, I would like to make sure you provide others the same liberty in creep's new incarnations. Therefore creep is licensed under the MIT License. Happy it’s permissively licensed under MIT, but I wonder if the author intended to use a sticky license instead.
What’s a sticky licence?
A sticky license includes a clause stipulating that while you can modify the code and share your modifications, any modifications must also be shared under that same license. This is usually referred to as a “share alike” clause. GPL is an example of a license like this.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#88Looks 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.
Amiga did 80x25 using 640x200 resolution.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#89https://www.pagetable.com/?p=901 Commodore C64 hacked 80x25 mode using 4x8 font.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
…and now I realized that even the ubiquitous IBM VGA 8x16 font does this! Single-pixel-wide counters would just look really bad, and even more bad on CRT monitors.