If you're using both shadows and descenders, you may want to make the capitals 6 pixels tall.
Top left: underlying black-and-white image
Top right: 3bpp
Bottom left: 2bpp without shadow
Bottom right: 2bpp with shadow
I've reordered the encoding to ASCII, and in each, rows 7 and 8 are the lowercase with some glyphs slightly enlarged for readability.
Custom 3+bpp font
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Re: Custom 3+bpp font
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Re: Custom 3+bpp font
I always think it's important to consider the corruption of a font under the system's signal generation. It can make a big difference in legibility. Here's Blargg's NTSC filter applied to tepples' example.