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tall, condensed bitmap font for geeks
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 6# scientifica
 7
 8> Tall and condensed bitmap font for geeks.
 9
10`scientifica` is largely based on
11[`creep`](https://github.com/romeovs/creep), with a number of
12minor tweaks to improve readability (*a matter of taste of
13course*). Most characters are just 4px wide, which is brilliant for
14low dpi(90-120) displays.
15
16
17## What's new?
18
19 - Scaleable `ttf` format
20 - Raster formats: `otb` and `bdf`
21 - Ligatures (vim and neovim only)
22 - **Bold** and *Italic* variants
23 - New Characters to the following unicode blocks:
24   * Geometric Shapes
25   * Arrows
26   * Miscellaneous Technical
27   * Miscellaneous Symbols
28   * Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
29   * Private Use Area (Powerline symbols)
30   * Mathematical Operators
31   * Box Drawings
32 - Revamped characters: `V, *, f, W, M, ~, & , i, t, a, (), [], {}`
33 - Vertically centered operators
34 - Larger Brackets to ease recognizability in streams of text
35
36## Gallery
37
38| ![sample image](./img/sci4.png)  | ![sample image](./img/sci2.png)  | ![sample image](./img/sci3.png)          |
39| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------         |
40| Programming                      | Box Drawings                     | Latin, Polish, Slovakian, French, German |
41
42| ![sample image](./img/sci1.png)  | ![sample image](./img/sci5.png)          |
43| -------------------------------- | --------------------------------         |
44| Powerline Glyphs                 | Ligatures (Rust, Python, Haskell, Ocaml) |
45
46
47## Installation
48
49Installation instructions have been moved to
50[`INSTALL.md`](INSTALL.md).
51
52## Ligatures
53
54Scientifica supports ligatures in Vim and Neovim via the
55conceal feature. Please read the
56[Ligatures](ligature_plugins/README.md)
57manual for instructions.
58
59
60## Credits
61
62Most Basic Latin characters are from
63[creep](https://github.com/romeovs/creep) by
64[romeovs](https://github.com/romeovs/).  
65Creep has been optimized for linux terminals by
66[raymond-w-ko](https://github.com/raymond-w-ko/). Check out
67his version [here](https://github.com/raymond-w-ko/creep2).  
68Some characters are based on
69[Lemon](http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/).  
70Thanks to the creators of [Font
71Forge](https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/) for, well,
72creating fontforge.