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gliptic | 5 months ago

Glyph advance or line spacing is not part of the bitmaps.

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K0balt|5 months ago

I get that, but it figures in when you actually put this on pixels. I’m thinking about practical use of such a font, most likely on a pixel-constrained screen, otherwise you would use a higher definition font.

It’s a cool hack, and for someone actually using little fonts like I do in real world devices it’s very interesting.

I find that you can actually go 4x5 (including padding) and still have great readability. Any less and you have to work to read it.

bigmadshoe|5 months ago

By this definition every n x n font is actually (n + 1) x (n + 1), but that isn’t the convention and fonts are never displayed with 0px vertical or horizontal spacing between letters.