Coolest pixel font ever.

[tribby]

Without a doubt, 04b_21 is the coolest pixel font in existance.

http://www.dsg4.com/04/extra/bitmap/index.html

[Julian Muñoz]

Yes, that's a neat font. thanks for the link, I will be grabbing some fonts to play with!

[jkeller]

Originally posted by tribby
Without a doubt, 04b_21 is the coolest pixel font in existance.

I'd bet that it's the Atari 800 font. Cool!

[Still Shady]

Wow... those are cool, but not the coolest though!

[jkeller]

Originally posted by Still Shady
Wow... those are cool, but not the coolest though!

Come on, SS. You know the first rule of forums: if you really wanna stir up trouble, you gotta post a counter-example. Like, poor ol' "Script" (the original, Windows bit-mapped version). Now there's a great font that everyone picks on.

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</joking>

[tribby]

Originally posted by Still Shady
Wow... those are cool, but not the coolest though!

The coolest font is Verdana. The coolest pixel font is 04b_21

[tribby]

Originally posted by jkeller


I'd bet that it's the Atari 800 font. Cool!

I hadn't even realized that at first... but I think you're right! Even more proof that it's the coolest pixel font in existance!

[Dogma]

Originally posted by jkeller


Come on, SS. You know the first rule of forums: if you really wanna stir up trouble, you gotta post a counter-example.

Okay. Silkscreen is the coolest pixel font ever. <http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/>

[tribby]

Originally posted by Dogma

Okay. Silkscreen is the coolest pixel font ever. <http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/>

Ha, the Silkscreen website says that Jeffrey Zeldman uses it. Wrong! He used to use Silkscreen before he realized that 04b_21 is better! See http://www.zeldman.com/

[jkeller]

Originally posted by Dogma
Okay. Silkscreen is the coolest pixel font ever.

Jason Kottke! I seem to remember meeting him once (both of us lived in Minneapolis, and he was/is friends with a friend of mine).

Yeah, Silkscreen's all right. But it reminds me of one that I made to create an 80-column display on a ZX81 back in the 80's. There's only so much you can do with a small number of pixels.

[timechange]

Originally posted by jkeller


Jason Kottke! I seem to remember meeting him once (both of us lived in Minneapolis, and he was/is friends with a friend of mine).

Yeah, Silkscreen's all right. But it reminds me of one that I made to create an 80-column display on a ZX81 back in the 80's. There's only so much you can do with a small number of pixels.

Yes it does. As a matter of fact, it's the same that Costa Panayi used in several of his games for the ZX Spectrum, such as "Revolution".

[clio]

superlooper fonts are DA BEST.

http://www.superlooper.de

Nice link Jeremy, but they look like Superlooper inspired

[jkeller]

Originally posted by clio
Nice link Jeremy, but they look like Superlooper inspired

Well, as I said: there's only so much you can do with a limited number of pixels. But then, that's part of the fun. It's like coding your own guestbook, even though there are 1000's of others out there. (Can you tell who's infected with the "not made here" bug? )

[tribby]

Ok, Superlooper fonts may rock, but that website is the most unintuitive piece of junk I have ever been to

[jkeller]

Originally posted by tribby
Ok, Superlooper fonts may rock, but that website is the most unintuitive piece of junk I have ever been to

I dunno. It's not the best, but it has some charm. And any fan of Groove Armada can't be all that bad (even if he does make Vogel-esque illustrations).