Used this kind of font for output on the 320x200 screen all of the time in the late 80s while coding 68k asm on the Atari St
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
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#132When I was building the layouts for my e-paper calendars , I needed pixel fonts due to the lack of grayscale on the display. It was surprisingly hard to find them - especially with customers asking for Cyrillic characters.
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#133> 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…
> 5x5 isn't enough to draw "e" properly if you also want lowercase letters to have less height than uppercase
It can be enough if you "cheat" and make use of the horizontal space. This is how I did it in my font:
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#134Makes me wonder. Geeks are happy to learn a new keyboard layout. What about a new alphabet that can give higher on screen density of data. Now 3x3 isn't necessary because we have high res monitors. We need 26 distinguishable shapes for a-z. In theory (focusing on non colourblind english speakers) there could be say 8 distinct colours and 8 shapes giving 64 chars.
As various Japanese developers have discovered, you can fit quite a lot of distinct characters into 8x8 if your audience is familiar with them: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/36423/is-this-8...
However I don't think even native developers with full Unicode language support tend to use Japanese/Chinese characters in variable names or keywords. There is the occasional hybrid registry key such as "令和_令_Reiwa_R" (which will allow the temporary replacement of the name of the Emperor in Windows dates when the current one dies).
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#135I love this but the licensing is ashame.
Does the NC in CC4.0 BY-NC-SA mean I couldn't for example sell a device using this?
What fustrates me about this is that it's such a narrow workspace, if I decided I wanted a 5x5 font there are very few ways to do that.
I get that this probably isn't copyrightable but at least make your license sensible.
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#136The site looks interesting, but it has a pop up called "navigation" that cannot be closed, and sits over the page rendering parts unreadable.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No, it's the ultra authoritarian government stopping you from viewing it.
Replace "imgur.com" in the links with "rimgo.bcow.xyz" and consider voting against the parties of surveillance next time you can :)
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#139Idk why maybe my font-size on this screen is too small but when I glanced at that title I read: "Sex Pistols font for tiny screens" haha
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#140This reminds me of the book Arcade Game Typography (https://www.counter-print.co.uk/products/arcade-game-typogra...), which looks at the history of a lot of arcade game fonts, sorted by category, and often has a full sprite sheet of the letters. I've been meaning to make my own digitised copy of all of the fonts for a while