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 meant that Ч doesn’t look like 4 in a good resolution. My point is that the substitution was forgiven because the design was crude.
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Replying to @Tosche_E @MathieuLoutre and
I don’t quite follow how it relates to my comment, though? You can imagine O = 0 and 1 = I and other glyph reuse for English working in pixel fonts because of crudeness, too. I have never seen those, though. Just the (possible) Cyrillic example above.
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Replying to @mwichary @MathieuLoutre and
It’s the degree of ambiguity that low resolution can grant. I can swallow 1/l, 0/O, or 3/З easier than 4/Ч or 2/Ζ.
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Have you seen any arcade pixel fonts missing zero or one or three?
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