Hi,
While discussing Visualisations, we realized we want *really* tiny fonts... Here is a hand-drawn sub-pixel font that is just 5 pixels high... http://typophile.com/node/61920 Now we need to make a font for Pharo... Marcus _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > Hi, > > While discussing Visualisations, we realized we want *really* tiny fonts... > > Here is a hand-drawn sub-pixel font that is just 5 pixels high... > > http://typophile.com/node/61920 > > > Now we need to make a font for Pharo... we should check in addition how good/bad freetype or the mac renderes tinty fonts from the standard truetype fonts. Marcus _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
What is the point of a font so small that I can hardly read it?
Or is it just me and I need new glasses? Adrian On Dec 2, 2009, at 18:09 , Marcus Denker wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> While discussing Visualisations, we realized we want *really* tiny >> fonts... >> >> Here is a hand-drawn sub-pixel font that is just 5 pixels high... >> >> http://typophile.com/node/61920 >> >> >> Now we need to make a font for Pharo... > > we should check in addition how good/bad freetype or the mac > renderes tinty fonts from > the standard truetype fonts. > > Marcus > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
visualizations.
We would love to have such a tiny font. If I would know how to do that I would already have done it. Stef On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > What is the point of a font so small that I can hardly read it? > > Or is it just me and I need new glasses? > > Adrian > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 18:09 , Marcus Denker wrote: > >> >> On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> While discussing Visualisations, we realized we want *really* tiny >>> fonts... >>> >>> Here is a hand-drawn sub-pixel font that is just 5 pixels high... >>> >>> http://typophile.com/node/61920 >>> >>> >>> Now we need to make a font for Pharo... >> >> we should check in addition how good/bad freetype or the mac >> renderes tinty fonts from >> the standard truetype fonts. >> >> Marcus >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [hidden email] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
Indeed, that would be great to have.
Doru On 2 Dec 2009, at 22:39, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > visualizations. > We would love to have such a tiny font. If I would know how to do > that I would already have done it. > > Stef > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > >> What is the point of a font so small that I can hardly read it? >> >> Or is it just me and I need new glasses? >> >> Adrian >> >> On Dec 2, 2009, at 18:09 , Marcus Denker wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> While discussing Visualisations, we realized we want *really* tiny >>>> fonts... >>>> >>>> Here is a hand-drawn sub-pixel font that is just 5 pixels high... >>>> >>>> http://typophile.com/node/61920 >>>> >>>> >>>> Now we need to make a font for Pharo... >>> >>> we should check in addition how good/bad freetype or the mac >>> renderes tinty fonts from >>> the standard truetype fonts. >>> >>> Marcus >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [hidden email] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [hidden email] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- www.tudorgirba.com "Yesterday is a fact. Tomorrow is a possibility. Today is a challenge." _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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do you have some code that we could study to turn this micro police into font in our smalltalk :) Stef On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > Hi, > > While discussing Visualisations, we realized we want *really* tiny fonts... > > Here is a hand-drawn sub-pixel font that is just 5 pixels high... > > http://typophile.com/node/61920 > > > Now we need to make a font for Pharo... > > Marcus > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Adrian Lienhard wrote: > What is the point of a font so small that I can hardly read it? > > Or is it just me and I need new glasses? > Maybe ;-) No, the idea was that for a visualisation, showing e.g. class names, having a font like that should be enough to know what class you look at... or as a label, to help those people who just cant remember which color has which of 5 different meanings. Microprint show information even though you can't read anything: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Robb05b-microprintsESUG.pdf So readability is not always needed to convey information contained in text. Marcus _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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