3x6 Pixel Monospace

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    Created on 11th August 2017. Last edited on 7th December 2017.
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I overlooked this one, sorry! It's based on a 3x6 subgrid, in a 3x8 grid (unfortunately for 'my' project of smaller matrices - though we can 'delete' the line spacing here to make it actually 3x8 without much ambiguities where it touches). I can store this possible font because it's pretty well done (as a -simpler- monospace design). I'll check later, e.g.: if it's a derived work (without a lot of personal choices); against duplications (e.g. "(" = "C" ruins the usability in basic Ascii), even ambiguities ("2Z", "3B"… but "'"" is fine); from a style coherency viewpoint ("&" looks too modern here, and several punctuations are not at the expected/common place, baseline-wise).

All right. After a few minutes of exam, I'd say it can still be improved consistently.

Please fix "C" or/and "(" if you need more valuable comment. We needn't thousands of incomplete sets of characters…

Comment by dpla 22nd august 2017

A list of many related ambiguities/duplicates is already on my site. (This kind of known errors help us build almost conventional hacks or fallbacks nowadays, hopefully.)

Comment by dpla 22nd august 2017

@dpla Fixed.

Comment by ttg16777216 7th december 2017

Hi! Cool. From what I see in US-ASCII only, it's getting better now!

I archived this new "3x6 Pixel Monospace" for my further comparisons, thank you.

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Here is my US-ASCII 'user input' string for the very low-res fonts on FontStruct:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ 

.!.".#.$.%.&.'.(.).*.+.,.-.../.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.:.;.<.=.>.?.@
.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.P.Q.R.S.T.U.V.W.X.Y.Z.[.\.].^._.`
.a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q.r.s.t.u.v.w.x.y.z.{.|.}.~.

We can see there are still a few ambiguities (if you need to alleviate this difficulty for any context of use). By 'ambiguity' I mean 1 or 2 dots only of difference. E.g. in these '1-dot' pairs: E& 2Z OQ il !l ., :; and more instances as '2-dot' pairs: hb FE PR… Anyway, it's already a good specimen of low-res font we have as it is. Interesting ~ (narrowed) and more puzzling <> (tall and () alike). Coherent weight (that may be kept in shorter matrices). Conventional shapes (if we can already say), in general, so: good job! You might want to design smaller US-ASCII fonts (3x7, 3x6, 3x5, 3x4, 3x3)?

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Bye, 'true type graphics in true color' ;-)

Comment by dpla 7th december 2017

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