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The World's Smallest Legible Font

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-he-can dept.

hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren't the smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able to read even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entire paragraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500 reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at the moment the smallest legible fonts in the world.'"

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  1. Comment by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    ts;dr

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  2. Re:Legibility by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tilt your head 90 degrees and you should be alright.

    You're welcome.

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  3. Re:Legibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! Now I'm dead...