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Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Re: Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Post by IdreesInc »

Solvency wrote: post #2

Love the font but wish you'd share your custom algorithm. I've designed a number of pixel fonts in the past I'd love to convert to strokes in this way. Any chance you'd release a little conversion kit?

Don't worry, it's completely open source! Miracode is a fork of my other font "Monocraft" which is under the GPL. As such, Miracode is also GPL, and the font files themselves are under the OFL. Since it's a fork, there are a few extra files that are not actually executed which may be why you aren't seeing the algorithm. Check miracode.py for the script that generates the font! No promises that it'd work on other fonts though, the "algorithm" was made over a weekend and as such could definitely use some optimization. On the bright side, I did include a unit testing system which might help others convert fonts in the future.

Re: Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Post by politelemon »

xxr wrote: post #14
politelemon wrote: post #12

How is that "TODO" done in the joined up way?

It’s a ligature defined in https://github.com/IdreesInc/Miracode/blob/main/src/ligature...

Oh neat, makes sense now that you've shown. The ligatures could encompass entire words doesn't have to be a few joined up characters.

Re: Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Post by ashton314 »

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #16

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With the millions of negative (and dismissive) comments available for free all over the web, I’m pretty sure there is already one similar or the same and we just don’t need another.

Let’s celebrate something neat that someone made and is sharing with us!

Re: Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Post by hn92726819 »

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #16

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Then don't use it? People do things for fun sometimes.

I used to program turtles with ComputerCraft a while ago, so I had to write Lua in Minecraft using the Minecraft font, so this is pretty funny to see. I won't use it, but it'll be in the back of my mind if I ever give a programming presentation to Minecraft players.

Re: Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Post by al_borland »

I’ll have to send this to my nephew. He is obsessed with Minecraft and is starting to get into coding. I think he’d really like this. Thanks for sharing it.

I really like the TODO and NOTE ligatures. I have been using Comic Code for a couple years now and kind of wish it had those.

Re: Show HN: Miracode, a Minecraft programming font that is readable

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Post by Solvency »

IdreesInc wrote: post #11
Solvency wrote: post #2

Love the font but wish you'd share your custom algorithm. I've designed a number of pixel fonts in the past I'd love to convert to strokes in this way. Any chance you'd release a little conversion kit?

Don't worry, it's completely open source! Miracode is a fork of my other font "Monocraft" which is under the GPL. As such, Miracode is also GPL, and the font files themselves are under the OFL. Since it's a fork, there are a few extra files that are not actually executed which may be why you aren't seeing the algorithm. Check miracode.py for the script that generates the font! No promises that it'd work on other font…

Awesome, thanks. I'm only versed in JS and Lua and all of my pixel fonts are basically glyphs on a big sprite sheet of 32x32 pixel grid cells. How difficult would it be for me to simply patch what you've started to work off something simple like bitmap data to export a TTF of converted vector data?
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