1x5 can also work if you take advantage of subpixel rendering https://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/
It seems like you need 2x5 for legibility
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
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#826×3 is also good (fits on a 7×4 grid).
https://archive.org/details/zx_Tasword_2_Tutor_1983_Tasman_S...
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#83I'm gonna use this article to explain to my peers about LLM quantization!
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#84The 3x2 is fascinating, it's the same resolution as braille, albeit rotated 90 degrees. I wonder if this could become a braille-like system that's both visually and finger-readable. Note: there are repeat glyphs here like c and o, though the example actually uses a different c somehow. But perhaps repeats are ok given context.
In the 2x2 resolution (which can't support all of Braille, but does support the first 10 characters), A, B, C, E, and F are all the recognizable Braille shapes for those letters (though in offset positions).
At first, it seemed like an Easter egg, but it's probably just a natural happenstance of two people centuries apart deciding to represent the first ten letters of the alphabet in a 2x2 grid with a general idea to use fewer dots at the start than at the end.
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#85CGA era developers are like, "Yea been there done that..."
And Commodore 64 people.
VIP Term, and others, had 3x7 fonts on 4x8 grids to connect to 80-column mainframes.
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#86I think on my 6.8" WQHD+ 3200 x 1440 phone screen (70.5mm width), an actual 5x5 pixel square might be the size of a period → .
Doing the math, 70.5mm / 1440px = 0.05mm per pixel, x5 = 0.25mm wide. Just a guess though, I'm not exactly sure how big a period is without a microscope.
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#87Fonts like this are also great for huge screens like LED signage. Big pixels and very low resolution, so logically a tiny screen.
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#88i really like your website design
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#89bunk! he left out 1x1
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#90Very cool for anyone with flawless eyesight!