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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

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Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

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Post by antraip »

bartvk wrote: post #3
lostmsu wrote: post #2

Small g is unreadable. I obviously know the alphabet and despite that it took quite some time to understand what letter is that.

Perhaps they should've used something similar to the 9. However then it wouldn't really look like a lower-case g.

Here is how I would personally modify lowercase g:

   xxx
  x   x
  xxxxx
      x
  xxxx
It looks a bit like a 9 but the descender is different.

(Could play around with how many x's to put on the first and third lines, particularly whether to set the first/last bits on those lines as "corners" or make it more rounded.)

I would also modify the top of lowercase e in a similar fashion.

Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

#53

Post by IvanK_net »

sophacles wrote: post #33
IvanK_net wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grayscale cameras are not that much cheaper than color cameras. And if you decided to use a grayscale camera on purpose, you probably do not care about the color information (which would be totally "made up" by the colorizing algorithm). Also, if there are only grayscale photos of you, you were probably born before 1900, and all your friends or your children (who might want to colorize your photo) are probably dead,…

What does the existence of a color photograph of my grandmother as an old woman have to do with my desire to colorize a grayscale photo of her as a child? Or colorize the photos of her wedding? It's a very strange argument to make: there exist some photos therefore other photos may not be colorized!

Did you colorize grayscale photos of your grandmothers wedding?

Seeing that a "neat tool" exists and using that "neat tool" are two diffrent things. Google Glass was neat, too.

Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

#54

Post by IvanK_net »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #11
IvanK_net wrote: post #6

Too bad "tiny screens" pretty much do not exist anymore. Screens with hundreds of pixels on each side are very cheap already. It reminds me people who research "colorizing grayscale photos", which do not exist anymore either (if you want a color photo of someone you met in your life, there probably exists a color photo of that person).

> Too bad "tiny screens" pretty much do not exist anymore. https://www.crystalfontz.com/product/cfal12856a00151b-128x56... - 128x56 https://www.crystalfontz.com/product/cfag12864u4nfi-128x64-t... - 128x64 There's a whole world of embedded devices with wide varieties of screen resolutions.

That is not a tiny screen, it has over 7 thousand pixels.

I think you will not be able to read 5x5 pixel letters on that display (a letter would be about 1 mm tall).

Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

#56

Post by soperj »

gpm wrote: post #27
soperj wrote: post #15

If the author sees this. I think the lower case t would benefit from a pixel above the cross, similar to how the lower case k goes up one more pixel. It looks a lot like the capital T with how it is now. It is very well done though. Thanks for sharing.

I think I'd go with something like x xxx x xx

didn't even think about the stem on the bottom. Originally I was thinking just the cross

     x
    xxx
     x
     x
But I think you're right.

Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

#58

Post by mjaniczek »

Oh cool, I have to try these fonts on my amber CRT getting commands from an Elm webapp ([demo](https://youtu.be/M9Q5tFPtGaA?t=121), [code](https://github.com/Janiczek/crt-esp32-elm/tree/main/vdom/)) - there's not a lot of real estate in a 400x240 NTSC resolution. But the scanlined rendering has so much charm!

EDIT: realized a better demo for this discussion would be the photos I took of all the tiny bitmap fonts I had converted to the C array style at the time. Thread has more but here are my favorites: https://bsky.app/profile/janiczek.cz/post/3mh25atboz224

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