Custom 3+bpp font

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tepples
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Re: Custom 3+bpp font

Post by tepples »

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.
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Re: Custom 3+bpp font

Post by rainwarrior »

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.
shaded_font_ntsc_filter.png
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