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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.
> Andrew Gleeson designed Analog Mono, “fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.” There used to be this classic pixel font that you’d see everywhere in the 1990s on hi-fi equipment: VCRs, TVs, camcorders, etc. One of its challenges was a low baseline which resulted in all the letters with descenders pulled up "VCR OSD Mono is a free bitmap font created by Riciery Leal, inspired by the on-screen display text of vintage VCRs…
If there is any one particular hat who can sell controversy, its the typographer.
>fix it all the way to Helvetica
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Akzidenz-Grotesk Helvetica || gtfo, nichtwa?
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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 like https://viznut.fi/unscii/ - meant for ascii art but still works well in a terminal, and still gets unicode updates
Sarah Cadigan-Fried has designed some very cool modern pixel art fonts worth checking! https://www.soft-type.com/
There's an interesting symmetry between the knitting, perler bead and pixel art crowds.
I find knitting very soothing, and it also scratches the same itch as programming.
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
