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Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Post by namibj »

sambishop wrote: post #8

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

Also, dotsies[0]: 5 high 1 wide, no horizontal spacing for kerning, ascii-space is just the all-white "character", letters (text) only and made more for visual density than actual pixel scarcity.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20171103012446/http://dotsies.org...

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Post by kristianp »

People are using vector formats to imitate bitmap fonts? What is the world coming to?

I say that as someone who recently enabled bitmap fonts in my installation of XWindows, so I could use them in Konsole. It's satisfying to see the crisp verticals, but unfortunately Terminus has too much spacing between the letters for my liking.

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Post by zokier »

jrdres wrote: post #60

A forgotten point is that modern pixel fonts all assume pixels have a 1:1 ratio: height the same as width, so an 8x8 character box is perfectly square. That's NOT true for many of the old computer displays. Most had finer resolution in the horizontal compared to vertical lines, so more pixels across than in the same distance down. 1:1 "square pixels" was an innovation of the Macintosh, and very unusual for the time.…

It's not that forgotten, for example int10h font collection (which probably is the biggest bitmap font resource) prominently shows aspect-ratio corrections for the fonts https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Post by gilrain »

RedNifre wrote: post #12

Could somebody explain the Coral Pixel font? It makes no sense to me, given that the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful. It only ever looked like that when you took a screenshot and then zoomed in, which seems extremely niche.

> the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful

That was the point, but it never worked: in practice, at least for me, text was smeary and colorful in that era. I wouldn’t want to use Coral Pixel, but I can imagine someone else being nostalgic for it.

Re: A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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Post by thechao »

Nition wrote: post #61
thechao wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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When I came across your comment it was voted down to the point of being [dead]. I've vouched for it to bring it back; I thought it was very clever!

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Hm. Morse makes adding an ellipsis remarkably challenging!

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