Pixelation

General => General Discussion => Topic started by: SwapBrain on November 20, 2010, 04:52:46 am

Title: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: SwapBrain on November 20, 2010, 04:52:46 am

I saw this and it fairly blew my mind:


http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/designing_the_smallest_legible_scre.html
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/a_tiny_screen_font_you_can_actually.html

Image from their site so forgive the jpg.

(http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b442/Edwin_Galloway/supersmallfontsample.jpg)
(http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b442/Edwin_Galloway/tinyfontcomparison02.jpg)

Title: Re: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: Dusty on November 20, 2010, 04:57:39 am

Surprisingly I think someone has posted smaller. I can't remember who or even if it was here, though.

Title: Re: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: Jeremy on November 20, 2010, 05:21:03 am

There's onek's (http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/50115.htm) tiny font

(http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/1px_font.gif)

This one's perhaps more practical though :)

Title: Re: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: ptoing on November 21, 2010, 06:51:32 pm

Onek's font is hardly what i would call readable. The other one reads pretty well, esp for the size.

Title: Re: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: Rydin on November 23, 2010, 10:43:15 pm

The subtle difference between C and D on onek's tiny font is blowing my mind.

Title: Re: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: Mathias on December 10, 2010, 01:43:04 pm

Onek's font still just looks like just a buncha backbuffer garbage to me. I see no typographaficational information.

Title: Re: Super tiny pixel font
Post by: Atnas on December 10, 2010, 04:27:40 pm

I agree for the most part, but once I figured out what the hell it was trying to say on the fifth line, "hello world !!!" I was able to recognize about half of the letters. I need to be a certain distance from my monitor for it to work, but when it does work I'm just amazed!