Comment by sehugg
1 day ago
The Atari 2600 had pretty good vertical resolution (assuming you could set up the next line in 76 cycles) but limited horizontal resolution. A 3x5 font is possible, but good luck distinguishing N from M.
This font seems to use characters up to 5 pixels wide, which helps with its near-legibility.
The thing to do with a 3x5 font is to make the capital N into a giant lowercase n. Then M H and W all become similar letters, just with a different location for the horizontal bar.
That's one of the possibilities, but one can also use asymmetry to evoke an illusion of diagonality, as in this font:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1426620/3x6-pixel...