Spent the last 2 weeks or so creating my own bitmap font. This is a
lot of fun and very addictive. I like pushing pixels around and
tweaking things. (I'll probably try pixel art or a more serious
attempt at ASCII art next. I love playing with details.)
That very first font of mine was a font with serifs. Here's a
screenshot:
gopher://uninformativ.de/I/twitpher/2016-03/2016-03-01--fiamf.png
I kind of like the look of regular text, but it's absolutely not
suited for programming. That's probably because it's my first font.
You tend to overdo things when doing them for the very first time.
I then tried to simplify the font.
It's important to note that I really wanted to do a 7x15 pixel font.
That's the perfect size for a 1280x1024 screen because you can then
show two terminals side-by-side with each more than 85 characters in
width.
Popular fonts like Terminus don't come in 7x15. In fact, that's a
rather uncommon size, I think.
There's one font in 7x15: sq.
https://github.com/chneukirchen/sq
Turns out, this is close to being the perfect 7x15 font. All my
efforts ended in me recreating sq by accident.
So, I took sq and fine-tuned it a little bit. The result is qsqs.
https://github.com/vain/qsqs
