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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. Original Source by fotbr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Skip the blogspam, go to the source: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/index.html

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

    Tilt your head 90 degrees and you should be alright.

    You're welcome.

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  4. Re:Legibility by sholsinger · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem is that these fonts are designed for LCD displays that are RGBRGB horizontally, not vertically. So rotating any display while using these fonts reduces the legibility due to the sub-pixel optimizations that have been done to make the font legible at it's size.

  5. My attempts by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Agree, this is not legible, especially when enlarged. And, here's my font from a good while ago which is not only slightly smaller (or would be if it was variable pitch) but also a good deal more readable. Can be enlarged without loss, too.

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

    Great! Now I'm dead...