Monospace 5x8 font designed for "easy" readablity

SDK Development Discussion
#1

I wanted a fairly small font that was also readable, and I also wanted monospacing, but without it looking too boring - maybe a bit whimsical. After fiddling with sizes, I found I could get something reasonable looking with with 5x8 pixels.

Here is what I came up with:

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You can download it from here:

And if you see anything that could be improved, feel free to create a pull request.

This is free for you to use. You are welcome to credit me, but it is totally not required.

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#2

I submitted a PR so that it can be easily used as an asset toybox. Font looks cool!

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#3

Well, that is really cool. A package manager for playdate projects :slight_smile:

Thanks for letting me know about it and turning the repo into a library for it.

#4

No problem. It's a good example to show how toyboxes can just bring assets in, instead of code.