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Comment by quickthrower2

3 years ago

When you are at 4 by 4 you might as well use the entire 16 pixel space for every font, rather than worry about them lining up when lower case.

That way you can have a Q that looks like a Q:

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    * *
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kragen  3 years ago

You do still have to worry somewhat about space in between characters; if it's missing too often, you can't recognize the character boundaries.

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