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https://github.com/romeovs/creep

a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font.
https://github.com/romeovs/creep

box-drawing drawille font fontforge haskell-syntax pixel-font sparkline

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a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font.

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![Creep](screens/logo.png "Creep logo")






This repository is no longer being actively maintained (at least not

extensively). Have a look at some more up to date alternatives:

- [raymond-w-ko/creep2](https://github.com/raymond-w-ko/creep2)

- [slavfox/Cozette](https://github.com/slavfox/Cozette)

- [fcambus/spleen](https://github.com/fcambus/spleen)

- [pico](https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3760)






[Features](#features) · [Installation](#installation) · [Attribution](#attribution) ·

[Licence](#license)



I never found the pixel font that was perfect for me, so I decided to roll

my own with creep.  It is a pretty compact (only 4px wide!) font that's great

for smaller screens (like my 11" laptop).



I'm constantly adding in new characters (diacritics, box-drawing characters, etc.),

so I figured I'd put it up on github for people to reap benefits of this.



I also recently added some nice [Haskell features](https://github.com/romeovs/creep/wiki/Haskell-syntax-sugar) (that

can be used in other languages too)!



![screenshot1](screens/screen.png  "screenshot of the ASCII characters")

![screenshot2](screens/screen2.png "in the wild example")



### Features

[Box Drawing](#box-drawing) · [Sparklines](#sparklines) ·

[Haskell](#better-haskell-syntax) · [Braille and

Drawille](#braille-and-drawille)

#### Box drawing

Creep has most of the basic box drawing characters implemented.  Therefore creep

usually works with most ncurses-type programs or with tmux window-splitting for

example.



![box drawing](screens/box.png "boxdrawing screenshot")



#### Powerline

Creep supports all the symbols needed for Lokaltog's awesome [powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline) plugin

for vim:



![powerline](screens/powerline.png "powerline screenshot")



#### Sparklines

Creep has the necessary symbols for creating sparklines. This is cool

for tools like [rainbarf](https://github.com/creaktive/rainbarf) and others.

I mean, see how good it makes [iStats](https://github.com/Chris911/iStats) look:



![istats](screens/istats.png "istats screenshot")



#### Better Haskell syntax

I've added support for a better-looking Haskell syntax.  Take a look at [the Haskell wiki

page](https://github.com/romeovs/creep/wiki/Haskell-syntax-sugar) to get an idea

of how it looks and how to use it in vim.



#### Braille and Drawille

Creep now supports the full

[braille alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_Patterns_(Unicode)),

which was an easy thing to do because of the clever braille encoding scheme.

All of the braille characters are simply generated using a little script.



Because creep supports braille, it also supports the wonderful

[Drawille](https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille) libraries:



![drawille](screens/drawille.png "drawille screenshot")



## Installation

The font is maintained using the awesome [gbdfed](http://sofia.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed/) 

which unfortunatly does not support a lot of export formats besides `bdf`.



To install creep in Mac OS X, you can use [font forge](http://fontforge.org/) to convert the `bdf`

file to a `dfont` file that can be used by Font Book.app to install the font.  To do this:



1. open the font in font forge:



   ```shell

   $ fontforge creep.bdf

   ```

2. select `File > Generate Fonts`

3. from the left dropdown select `No Outline Font`

4. from the right dropdown select `Apple bitmap only sfnt (dfont)`

5. click `Save`

6. open the `.dfont` file in Font Book.app

7. You're done!



Alternativatly you can download one of the [releases](https://github.com/romeovs/creep/releases),

these are not the latest versions of the font but I will try to update them regulary so you don't

have to go trought these steps.



I'm not a professional font creator so there are some little quirks in the character

sizing.  To get past these I set the line height to 0.9 and the character spacing

to 0.75 in Terminal.app (using a Size of 16px) to make it look airtight.



![terminal](screens/info.png "Terminal.app settings")



## Attribution

Before I created creep I was using [Proggy Tiny](http://www.proggyfonts.net/), which is also 

great font and has given me the inspiration to create my own font.



Also I would like to compliment the creators of

[gbdfed](http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed/) on their work.  I

really enjoy using it.



Also if you have some ideas on what I should implement, please contact me.  I'd

be happy to implement extra features.



Thanks go out to [Chase Colman](https://github.com/chase) for fixing the

metric issues creep had, a wercker script and just for being a helpful fellow.



[Creepin'](https://soundcloud.com/youngmustard/creepin-no-sleep-remasterd)



## License

I love you all, so please use this font as much as you like for free and with as

little restrictions as possible. Therefore creep is licensed under the [MIT

License](https://github.com/romeovs/creep/blob/master/LICENSE).

You don't have to, but it'd be nice if you license your code permissively too if

at all possible