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So 4x4 is too small for readable font
by xani_ 4y ago
So 4x4 is too small for readable font
- akvadrako 4y agoUppercase is readable.
- numlock86 4y agoOnly in context. Letters like B, D, E, G, O, M and W are just literal blobs of pixels without any indication of what the actual letter might be. You can only tell C and E apart if you know what the other one looks like. Even worse for lower case. See x for example.
- hyakosm 4y agoTHE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LASY OOO TED4PLTO7O TIMESY
- capableweb 4y agoSeems 5x5 is the limit. 5x5 is perfectly readable to me, while this 4x4 one is not always very clear. Example of 5x5: https://www.dafont.com/5x5.font?text=Small+fonts+have+always+been+fascinating+to+me%2C+so+I+decided+to+make+the+smal https://www.dafont.com/5x5.font?text=Small+fonts+have+always...
- 1-6 4y agoLooks like the 5x5 example doesn’t even bother recreating lowercase letters.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThis makes it completely unusable.
- codazoda 4y agoI mean, not completely. Lots of games use all uppercase so did many old computers. So, it’s got some potential uses.
- RunSet 4y agoOnly free for personal use, alas.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoIf it's for commercial use, paying for a useful component should be plausibly reasonable?
- RunSet 4y agoTechnically that is correct although when replying I had in mind use cases that are neither commercial nor personal.
- zugi 4y agoNice but keep in mind that 5x5 font just punted on lower case letters entirely. So there are no descenders and they use the full 5x5 for upper case. The 4x4 font has lower case, so it reserves the bottom row for descenders gjpqy. Its upper case letters don't use the descenders row so they're really 3x3, which is barely readable. It's actually interesting that the all caps 3x3 is almost readable! For comparison it would be interesting to see a 4x4 all caps font, or a 5x5 with lower case.
- _def 4y agoI remember these from various forum signature prestige graphics lol
- userbinator 4y agoIndeed, and for upper/lowercase there's a reason why 5x7 has become a de-facto standard for character LCDs; the letters EeMmWw all have 5 "elements" horizontally, and vertically you'd want more than 5 in order to distinguish upper/lowercase.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoThe submission is really a 3x3 font on a 4x4 canvas, but your linked font is a 5x5 font that would (presumably) be on a 6x6 canvas.
- RegW 4y agoTasword on the ZX Spectrum used a font that fitted into 4x8 (so the characters were 3 pixels wide). It wasn't brilliant by today's standards, especially given it would usually be plugged into an 80s TV. However, this allowed 64 character lines on a 32x24 screen. I worked for Tasman Software and answered lots of phone calls and written queries, so I know it was the first word processor used by a great many people. I wonder how many are now blind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
- trasz 4y agoI wonder if - and if so, how much - its readability improves with readers' experience with it.
- vesinisa 4y agoYes indeed. I am sure the author learned to read texts with this font quite fluently while working on it, and you'd learn too with little practice.
- newphonecartel 4y agoIt's carp. The author should go back to art school(actually i bet he dropped out of engineering).
- newphonecartel 4y agoFound the index on my tiny screen: https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html Interesting! I read the about section. Does the author say who he actually is anywhere?