Pixel font with prodigious number of glyphs. I have two questions: Why zero descenders policy? Why enforce monospace? The lack of descenders can be explained by technical reasons: dot matrix displays usually don't support descenders. Is this the reason behind monospace, too? The j,g,y look completely squeezed. And the i,j,l look so lonely in the middle of words. Some letters of the Cyrillic set suffer likewise. The display technology should be mature enough to address these issues, if they want to. 10/10
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Pixel font with prodigious number of glyphs. I have two questions: Why zero descenders policy? Why enforce monospace? The lack of descenders can be explained by technical reasons: dot matrix displays usually don't support descenders. Is this the reason behind monospace, too? The j,g,y look completely squeezed. And the i,j,l look so lonely in the middle of words. Some letters of the Cyrillic set suffer likewise. The display technology should be mature enough to address these issues, if they want to. 10/10
Indeed, hence the existence of FS Unorithodox Sans (an "unorthodox" dot matrix font, although maybe I pushed the "unorthodox" too far).
Wow, your Arabic-Indic digits are the same as the ones from all Arabs' handwriting. Very cool.
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