[Pharo-project] Very tiny fonts
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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
juan 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
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