https://github.com/tommythorn/spleentt-5x8-font

Tiny 5x8 bitmap font based on spleen and creep, useful for low-resolution displays
https://github.com/tommythorn/spleentt-5x8-font

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Tiny 5x8 bitmap font based on spleen and creep, useful for low-resolution displays

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tommythorn/spleentt-5x8-font
• Owner: tommythorn
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2023-02-12T00:50:12.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-05T09:01:38.000Z (11 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-11T16:16:19.150Z (5 days ago)
• Topics: bdf, bitmap-font, monospaced, monospaced-font
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 248 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Spleentt

![spleentt](images/spleentt.png  "All ASCII characters in this (spleentt) font, with code snippets")

While considering a project with a 320 × 128 LCD, I needed the

smallest possible readable font that would work here.  The best two

candidates I found were Spleen (5×8) and Creep/Creep2 (5×9).  Each

had their own strengths and issues, so I decided to create a new font,

mostly based on Spleen.

All fonts are compromises and the compromises become more severe as we

reduce the available resolution.  The inherent tension between

improving the visual appearence and respecting the inter-character

spacing is core to all the changes made here.

While stretching glyphs might make them prettier in isolation, once

placed next to other glyphs, the lost whitespace makes for more

difficult reading.  For this reason, all but two horizontal space

violators were eliminated (`#` and `+` remains).

There are only a few vertical violations as we leave the descentor

(the bottom-most row) free, except for glyphs `g`, `j`, `p`, `q`, and

`Q`.  Notably, none of the parenthesis, brackets, braces descend

there.

At this point about half of the ASCII glyphs from the original Spleen font

have been redesigned.

## Original

![spleen](images/spleen.png  "All ASCII characters in the original spleen font")

# Acknowledgments

This wouldn't have been possible without the amazing work of Romeo Van

Snick and Frederic Cambus

* Spleen: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

* Creep: https://github.com/romeovs/creep

* The X11 fixed fonts

* And _even_ tinier https://github.com/toitware/toit-font-clock