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Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by kortex »

crazygringo wrote: post #15

Nice! Nitpick though -- by standard convention for terminal fonts shouldn't it be called a 5px wide font? (4px for the letterform, 1px in between.) Since they're sized according to the pixels available for each character. I was really wondering how on earth letters would be clear with just 3px left for the letterform... :S

The $ is 5 pixel points, so I think this is a case of "px" being more of a term of art rather than actually being 4 pixels wide per letter. I think. Would appreciate clarification.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by pantalaimon »

aidenn0 wrote: post #13
adamrezich wrote: post #6

so this is only for OSX?

Quite the opposite; Xorg can handle BDF fonts natively. Of course in modern applications, the client renders the font, so see e.g. https://gabusc.us/posts/bitmap-fonts-on-linux/ for how to set that up

so tldr: covert the font to OpenType for it to work with a recent version of pango?

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by malux85 »

IgorPartola wrote: post #2

This is fun. As I’m working on my little hobby project that is custom air quality meters I am using 128x64 screens that are about an inch on the diagonal. I ended up having to create a custom pixel font that would work for both 6pt and 8pt height plus some icons in each. It’s been a really fun experience and rewarding too.

This project sounds cool, I’d love to see a blog post about it and some pictures!

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by amelius »

kortex wrote: post #21
crazygringo wrote: post #15

Nice! Nitpick though -- by standard convention for terminal fonts shouldn't it be called a 5px wide font? (4px for the letterform, 1px in between.) Since they're sized according to the pixels available for each character. I was really wondering how on earth letters would be clear with just 3px left for the letterform... :S

The $ is 5 pixel points, so I think this is a case of "px" being more of a term of art rather than actually being 4 pixels wide per letter. I think. Would appreciate clarification.

Honestly, this sucks and it renders the font useless for a lot of purposes. I wanted to use it in an embedded system, but that seems out of the question now.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by Dylan16807 »

amelius wrote: post #24
kortex wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The $ is 5 pixel points, so I think this is a case of "px" being more of a term of art rather than actually being 4 pixels wide per letter. I think. Would appreciate clarification.

Honestly, this sucks and it renders the font useless for a lot of purposes. I wanted to use it in an embedded system, but that seems out of the question now.

$ and & using the normally-blank column doesn't render the font "useless". If you want that column to always be blank, then just trim it.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by chmod775 »

amelius wrote: post #24
kortex wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The $ is 5 pixel points, so I think this is a case of "px" being more of a term of art rather than actually being 4 pixels wide per letter. I think. Would appreciate clarification.

Honestly, this sucks and it renders the font useless for a lot of purposes. I wanted to use it in an embedded system, but that seems out of the question now.

It's just not mathematically possible to draw a proper "$" 4 pixels wide, since you need at least 2 pixels one each side of the vertical line to draw the enclosed areas.

Re: Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font

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Post by Dylan16807 »

chmod775 wrote: post #28
amelius wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, this sucks and it renders the font useless for a lot of purposes. I wanted to use it in an embedded system, but that seems out of the question now.

It's just not mathematically possible to draw a proper "$" 4 pixels wide, since you need at least 2 pixels one each side of the vertical line to draw the enclosed areas.

Given the M and W I don't think "mathematically possible" is the criteria here.
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