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Makes me think of a related font, dotsies [1]. It's not necessarily meant to be displayed at 1px wide, but it would be possible. The intro/tutorial on that page
by tomsmeding 8y ago
Makes me think of a related font, dotsies [1]. It's not necessarily meant to be displayed at 1px wide, but it would be possible. The intro/tutorial on that page is a pleasure to go through, in a mind-bending way.
[1]: http://dotsies.org http://dotsies.org
- xtagon 8y agoIt might even be possible to render at 1/3rd pixels wide, if you take advantage of RGB sub-pixels on an LCD. Sounds like a fun thing to try.
- gburt 8y agoThe OP did precisely this!
- Dylan16807 8y agoThe OP did not pack three letters into each column of pixels.
- xtagon 8y agoNot precisely. They took advantage of sub-pixels but still needed more (sub-)pixel width per letter.
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- IMTDb 8y agoHas anyone learned to actually read that . If so, how hard is it ? :)
- aeneasmackenzie 8y agoI picked it up briefly to familiarity. You can learn to read it very quickly ("read" here meaning you no longer need to refer to the key so you can increase your reading speed just by reading more). If you're going to learn it consider learning dotsies v3[0] instead. All vowels plus y, and only the vowels, touch both edges which fixes the main issue, that you can't tell abcde apart. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3602163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3602163 the bottom link is v3.
- vackosar 8y agoDo you use the v3 in a practical application? e.g. browsing or programming?
- marchdown 8y agoSince no one has presented a version of the dotsies bookmarklet, which is actually necessary to use them in practice, I'll go and make one with the proper mapping for v3. If there is one already, let me know. Actually, looks like all the permutations in the bookmarklet only allow you to use glyphs in Dotsies.tff, and there are some possible glyphs missing. I'll have to edit the font file.
- cjohansson 8y agoI could read it at first glance, I didn’t need any training. Maybe it’s different between individuals
- ClashTheBunny 8y agoThe initial words use a font for each letter within the letter. Normal dotsies are the bottom rows.
- xelxebar 8y agoI just now spent about an hour reading the homepage's article that incrementally introduces dotsies characters. It went surprisingly smoothly and effortlessly, though my reading speed was fairly slow compared to normal. I'd say it's a fun exercise for anyone at all interested.
- vackosar 8y agoI was experimenting with same idea. It is basically Baudot code used as a font. Problem I had with this is that I couldnt reliably read it. But I think color alphabet may have some merit: http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/6color.php http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/6color.php