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tall, condensed bitmap font for geeks
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scientifica#

Tall and condensed bitmap font for geeks.

scientifica is largely based on creep, with a number of minor tweaks to improve readability (a matter of taste of course). Most characters are just 4px wide, which is brilliant for low dpi(90-120) displays.

What's new?#

  • Scaleable ttf format
  • Raster formats: otb and bdf
  • Bold and Italic variants
  • New Characters to the following unicode blocks:
    • Geometric Shapes
    • Arrows
    • Miscellaneous Technical
    • Miscellaneous Symbols
    • Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
    • Private Use Area (Powerline symbols)
    • Mathematical Operators
    • Box Drawings
  • Revamped characters: V, *, f, W, M, ~, & , i, t, a, (), [], {}
  • Vertically centered operators
  • Larger Brackets to ease recognizability in streams of text
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Programming Box Drawings Latin, Polish, Slovakian, French, German Powerline glyphs

Installation#

Installation instructions have been moved to INSTALL.md.

Credits#

Most Basic Latin characters are from creep by romeovs.
Creep has been optimized for linux terminals by raymond-w-ko. Check out his version here.
Some characters are based on Lemon.
Thanks to the creators of Font Forge for, well, creating fontforge.