creep2 VS spleen

This is great! Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated since 2016 and isn't suitable for applications outside Terminal.app. But apparently someone else took up the mantle and rebuilt it to solve those issues and published it as creep2:

https://github.com/raymond-w-ko/creep2

> I love romeovs's creep font, but I think you could only use it well in Apple's Terminal.app because it has negative line and character width spacing, which the font requires to be spaced correctly. The root cause of this appears to be because some glyphs are bigger than the 5px by 11px bounding box, causing most terminals to think a much bigger box is necessary for the general ASCII glyphs.

> In order to fix this issue, I manually hand painted all the glyphs from the 'creep' font in fontforge.

Awesome! I just wish creep2 added some of those sweet demo photos that are in the creep README.

If it helps, these days I disable anti-aliasing (all hinting actually) and use a bitmap font such as Spleen. Not particularly pretty but very easy and crisp on the eyes.

It reminds me more of Spleen, but it's not it either

>the font is Spleen

Spleen

Your font is cool, ignore the downvotes. It reminds me a bit of the default console font on OpenBSD, Spleen [1].

[1] https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/

The Spleen font has, among other sizes, the 5x8, which is pretty similar. It's the default for OpenBSD drm console, although using a different size. It's constantly being updated.

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

OpenBSD's default console font Spleen has a 5x8 version which, which is fairly legible while still looking nice:

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

Any smaller than that and you're getting into ugly territory.

Are you familiar with the Spleen font? It’s very readable at 5x8 pixels and combines full ASCII support with things like box-drawing characters.