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Viii, 8pt bitmap font for coding

10 pointsby niedzielskiover 3 years ago

2 comments

Minor49erover 3 years ago
Interesting. It reminds me a lot of old ASCII fonts for DOS. Some of the things I noticed when reading through the text in the example image:<p>The tails on the letters &quot;i&quot; and &quot;l&quot; are an interesting stylistic choice that work to help the conjunction in the monospace flow, though it adds ambiguity when the colors are darkened. In particular, for the comment that reads &quot;recursively apply parent blueprints&quot;, my eyes kept wanting to see some of the &quot;l&quot;s as &quot;k&quot;s when I read over the words slowly, despite having no trouble reading the words normally.<p>The &quot;B&quot; also is very similar to 8 since the top left of it is rounded. The &quot;&amp;&quot; also looks similar to B&#x2F;8 as well.<p>Take this with a grain of salt since this is just a first impression. I haven&#x27;t tried this for writing and editing code yet, so things may be different in practice. Overall, I like the style. It&#x27;s also rather readable considering its small size.
eternityforestover 3 years ago
What a cool font! It would be great for 8 bit games.