Here’s my TYPO Berlin talk on video game fonts. (I’m so embarrassed by my nerdy excitement. What a weirdo!
)https://www.typotalks.com/videos/8-pixels-is-all-you-need/ …
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Replying to @Tosche_E @jr_siebert
Amazing!
I have a theory about that missing 4 though...pic.twitter.com/8Ifx4dZZ0X
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I’m actually surprised we haven’t seen that kind of substitution in English fonts, too!
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This is only possible thanks to the ambiguity of low resolution.
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There is a precedent in the world of typewriters. In early ones, capital O served as zero, and capital I or later lowercase l as 1 (and similarly in other languages).pic.twitter.com/vRa03eZ45q
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Cyrilic has "Ze" which looks like a 3, and as a result the key for 3 used to sometimes be left out of the typewriter's keyboard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze_(Cyrillic) …)
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Replying to @MathieuLoutre @Tosche_E and
The fonts were usually aware, too, for example here where the “el” ended up looking too much like “one”:pic.twitter.com/BDoJ1c5blY
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Replying to @mwichary @MathieuLoutre and
I know all the typewriter examples, it’s just that 4/Ч in particular would be a bit of stretch under normal circumstances.
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I started doubting everything after I’ve seen 2 = Z. :·)pic.twitter.com/ixoGMvdYvC
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Carrying on this fine tradition, I will admit to releasing multiple Fonts of the Month where the 1 and 0 are exact duplicates of the I and O, respectively.
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which can be aesthetically pleasing, until u want I1O0 but when does one want that really
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