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A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

#21

Could somebody explain the Coral Pixel font? It makes no sense to me, given that the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful. It only ever looked like that when you took a screenshot and then zoomed in, which seems extremely niche.

All technology, no matter how undesirable it once felt, eventually becomes nostalgic for somebody.

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

#24

as a lover of low resolution software, we must acknowledge the goat, never surpassed since 2003: https://www.dafont.com/04b-03.font nowadays all the alpha exists in making your software look like a cool fantasy tome: https://skeddles.itch.io/eldring-pro

That's 2 advanced for me ...

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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> Geist Pixel isn’t a novelty font. It’s a system extension. Okay LLM

To be fair, that's a direct quote from Vercel themselves introducing Geist Pixel: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel

ya because Vercel generated the copy with an LLM

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

#26
So, Analog Mono and Geist both have enough pixels per glyph that they don't really read as pixel fonts below sizes of ~20px. Analog kinda aleviates that by being made up of big (overlapping) blocks of 2x2 pixels. Geist just kinda looks like a downscaled vector font (to me) though.

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, that's a direct quote from Vercel themselves introducing Geist Pixel: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel

ya because Vercel generated the copy with an LLM

Some people wrote like that before LLMs polluted the water.

Just like people used em dashes before LLMs.

I used bullet points heavily before LLMs.

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

ya because Vercel generated the copy with an LLM

Some people wrote like that before LLMs polluted the water. Just like people used em dashes before LLMs. I used bullet points heavily before LLMs.

For sure, but I don't think I'm going to give Vercel benefit of the doubt that they aren't writing their copy with an LLM.

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

ya because Vercel generated the copy with an LLM

Some people wrote like that before LLMs polluted the water. Just like people used em dashes before LLMs. I used bullet points heavily before LLMs.

I still use bullets extensively. You can easily tell when a human writes them when they are trees instead of lists.
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