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Ken Perlin's Tiny Font
- aston 16y agoCool idea. However, though the individual letters are all roughly legible, the text there is not readable at all. The lines are quite long and the line spacing is quite short, so your eye'll have a lot of difficulty moving line to line successfully.
- sachinag 16y agoDisagree for me. Recognized it as the Declaration of Independence pretty easily. I will say, however, the second and subsequent lines were harder to read without the white space above.
- duck 16y agoWell it is one thing to recognize it, but another to be able to comfortably read it.
- troutwine 16y agoAs an experiment, I cut a small bit of paper and hid each line as I finished them up. Still rather difficult to read, but certainly more possible. An interesting font, to be sure, but one which did not truly meet its goal.
- biot 16y agoYour difficulty was due to the line spacing, so in fact you don't disagree.
- jambo 16y agoHeads up in case you can't see it in your browser: it's a Java applet.
- RodgerTheGreat 16y agoFor anybody without Java, here's a screenshot: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5803/stinyfont.png http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5803/stinyfont.png
- macrael 16y agoJason Kottke's Silkscreen is not quite so tiny, but very legible. http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ http://kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/
- ctdonath 16y ago"eg: an Apple IPod" Pity his demo doesn't work on one.
- iclelland 16y agoEven if it did, it would look horrible as soon as you changed the device orientation. It's optimized for horizontal RGB triples, and would probably not be legible at all if they were stacked vertically.
- antidaily 16y agoCool technique. Similar to what this guy was doing with the YouTube favicon: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-16-n27.html http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-16-n27.html
- panic 16y ago"The Flea's Knees" is another great tiny font: http://typophile.com/node/61920 http://typophile.com/node/61920