Love it! Gonna use it on my termimal. Wish we had a font like this with full unicode support too.
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
91–100 of 109 posts
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Isn’t that called ‘copyleft’? I’m not sure ‘sticky’ is a common term.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#93There 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
This is really cool! I always wondered if the japanese alphabet could be rendered like this. I found the hiragana and katakana characters to be easy to read but the kanji was really hard. I'm a beginner though...
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#94Earlier 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.
> 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?
I assume that "proper $" means the middle line is fully drawn, forming the two closed spaces at the upper left and lower right.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#95Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#96This 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…
Does a font really need regular updates?
But it's probably possible to convert Mac fonts somehow
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Isn’t that called ‘copyleft’? I’m not sure ‘sticky’ is a common term.
Certainly not a term I've heard used to refer to licenses but it sounds less political than copyleft and I found it immediately understandable.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#98Looks 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.
The Amiga doesn't have a character mode. It does what you ask it in full bitmap mode. Many games, applications and more, made better use of limited screen real estate by using 4, 5 and 6 px wide fonts.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#99This reminds me of Microsoft Nina, a narrow font designed for Pocket PC.
Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
#100Looks an awful lot like some of the fonts that used to be quite common on early microcomputers from RadioShack, Commodore, Atari, even Apple. That said, there are some thoughtful additions: the lower case F and L are as elegant as the M is (necessarily) awkward.