Micropolis

ill sans13 Feb 2007

First of all, I wasn't sure whether to post this font here, in the Display forum or the Experimental forum.
I've tried to make a legible (and I use that term broadly) font with a 10 pixel limit for each glyph while respecing each character's characteristics (ascenders/descenders). I'm not sure if I succeeded at this, after all, I knòw what it's supposed to be, but I do like the outcome of it.

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Micro2.gif	3.6 KB
Micro3.gif	2.39 KB

nicholasgross13 Feb 2007#

dude, that is awesome, I also like the outcome of it. It's great to see when formalism like that really pays off with something nice to look at
nice

brett jordan13 Feb 2007#

excellent

ill sans13 Feb 2007#

I've updated the font with uppercase characters & slight changes to the lowercase l, m & w. I also made new numbers.

cerulean14 Feb 2007#

Check out my Fourmat, further down the Bitmap Text page. It's interesting how we were able to achieve significantly different styles with these parameters.

ill sans14 Feb 2007#

Interesting indeed, but what might explain a lot is that I didn't want to make diagonal corners with "wandering pixels" which obviously makes a look a lot heavier.

ill sans14 Feb 2007#

Hey cerulean, I considered your comment as a challenge & made a pixel font (see Micro3) according to your parameters (also using "wandering pixels" this time) just for comparison & -obviously- this one is a lot more like your Fourmat (nice name BTW)... Even the capital B which I found quite a challenge turned out pretty much the same, but then again, there's only so many ways to make a letter using a limited amount of pixels.

cerulean14 Feb 2007#

The new z there is nifty. And I was indeed impressed with the contiguous-area aspect of Micropolis.

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