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Old 08-31-2007   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DChronos View Post
Hey, you know what you need now? An M6 font CREATION tool for people to create their own 16x16 and 20x20 fonts with via a simple black and white pixel drawing program.
Well, if I find some free time again than maybe I'll start developing...

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Originally Posted by DChronos View Post
One last question I'd like to ask about is, how come the fonts, what I remember, looked like rectangular shapes, taller than they were wide? I thought they were like that, because something the same width and height would look either fat as a font, or spaced out too far... especially with characters like i and a period or other mark. Does the M6 overlap characters placing a set amount of empty space between the actual edge pixels of the font's characters or something?
M6 keeps width for each glyph and the glyph itself is left aligned in the 16x16 or 20x20 matrix.
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