And for 1x1 screens
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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
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Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
#1221x5 can also work if you take advantage of subpixel rendering https://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/
I was annoyed that all the images of the pixel fonts were larger than they actually ostensibly would be on a tiny screen, so I zoomed out my browser all the way on macbook pro retina screen, only to find the tiny letters of the blog text were 100x more readable than any of the pixel fonts in the post. And if the pixel font images were to be rendered at actually 5 pixels on my Retina screen, because the resolution of…
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Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
#123The 3x5 size is pretty common in wplace, it's a good compromise.
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#124The 5x5 is very nice, and the 3x5 isn't bad either. Unfortunately neither of them have all of ASCII. The size is also a bit misleading because you need to add spacing so really they need a 6x6 or 4x6 grid. I'm quite fond of Spleen: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen It has a 5x8 font which has all of ASCII, but most glyphs are actually 4x8 and include horizontal spacing. I modified it to reduce the rest for a project…
In the early 1980s there were actually word processors for the Apple 2 which had a 40 column display (7 pixel wide fonts default) that gave 60 columns using the a 5x5 font in graphics mode. It was a selling point.
The hardware solution was to buy an "80 column card" that gave 80 columns of proper text, if your monitor could handle it.
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#125The LINC minicomputer operating system LAP6 came with a 4x5 font, but it didn't have lower case.
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#126Some non-ascii characters will be hard on 5x5 like ñ o É
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#127This is cool, but my problem is the opposite: I have a modern laptop screen with tiny pixels. What I need is then a huge bitmap font... does anybody have any?
Why a bitmap font if you have tiny pixels? Just use a sharp font like Iosevka or similar.
Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
#1281x5 can also work if you take advantage of subpixel rendering https://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/
Actually blown away by how good that works with my 1920x1200 8-bit HP Z24n G2 monitor [1] and my Laptop's 1920x1080 6-bit Panel [2] [2x5-HP-Z24n-G2] https://i.imgur.com/yLyrpfg.jpeg [1x5-HP-Z24n-G2] https://i.imgur.com/Z7kH005.jpeg [2x5-Innolux-N156HCA-GA3] https://i.imgur.com/F4Ypxwj.jpeg [1x5-Innolux-N156HCA-GA3] https://i.imgur.com/etkot5o.jpeg [1] https://jp.ext.hp.com/monitors/business/z_z24n_g2/ [2] https://www…
The content isn't viewable in my area. Presumably the UK has rules about minimum font sizes.
Re: 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
#1291x5 can also work if you take advantage of subpixel rendering https://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/
I was annoyed that all the images of the pixel fonts were larger than they actually ostensibly would be on a tiny screen, so I zoomed out my browser all the way on macbook pro retina screen, only to find the tiny letters of the blog text were 100x more readable than any of the pixel fonts in the post. And if the pixel font images were to be rendered at actually 5 pixels on my Retina screen, because the resolution of…
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#130> 4x4: Not enough to draw "E", "M" or "W" properly. However, 5x5 isn't enough to draw "e" properly if you also want lowercase letters to have less height than uppercase, so you need at least 6 vertical pixels. And then that isn't enough to draw any character with a descender properly, so you need at least 7 vertical pixels (technically you should have 8 in order to allow "g" and "y" to have a distinct horizontal desc…
I think the `e` looks better in the 'real pixels' example they gave; I find my tends to 'fill in' the space of the top part of the letter, and I suspect in the context of a longer sentence it'd be pretty easy to parse. (but yeah, it's not quite right, and is especially jarring in the nice, clean, blown up pixels in the top example)
Was it intended that we should fill in the word 'mind' ourselves, to prove your point???