Comment by omoikane
3 years ago
I like this, it's like code golf but for fonts. It's cool that it can be done but not something I would use regularly.
I think the end game would be a 3x2 font that is basically Braille.
3 years ago
I like this, it's like code golf but for fonts. It's cool that it can be done but not something I would use regularly.
I think the end game would be a 3x2 font that is basically Braille.
The linked font has 92 characters (lowercase, uppercase, digits, symbols, punctuation)
A 3x2 font can only represent 64 (2^6) characters.
So I guess part of the golfing would be defining what the minimum set of characters is.
BESM-6 had indicator of kernel registers - http://www.mailcom.com/besm6/ . Using economic font, one could provide more information directly to the user than if the font takes too many pixels.
In other words, we may have situations where the font size is at premium.