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This is a lot like dotsies, except that dotsies only uses the space of a single column for each letter. It doesn't have numbers though.

Comment by tsafontstruct 4th june 2021

@tsafontstruct: thank you for this reminder
(cool Tap, Pixel and Braille fonts b.t.w.).

DOTSIES
Here are the references to the mentioned Dotsies:
• Dotsies official page, on 2012 by Craig Muth: https://dotsies.org/
• Summary page on Omniglot.com: https://omniglot.com/conscripts/dotsies.htm
• Summary page on DCode.fr: https://www.dcode.fr/dotsies-writing
• Reddit.com, TechCrunch.com, Twitter.com etc. via Google.com: https://www.google.com/search?q=dotsies+font

GRIDS
Actually, the many logical grids that I quickly fontstructed in the past
(i.e. the ones that could withstand the server failures and their partial backups):
• are not recreations, tributes, or derivative works at all;
• are provided to help us create very low-res US-ASCII+ fonts
(I already designed such 2×4-dot encodings: orthogonally & diagonally)*;
• this exhaustive, binary list of glyphs may not be used directly
as valid code points: a selection is to be done (or all the mapping).

DIFFERENCES
New sets of characters, alphabets essentially,
are being invented by a substantial proportion
of children / teenagers every year, since ages
(in the case of Dotsies, as a typical cipher).
 VS.
The project of scaling down our Latin glyphs
to their most minimalistic rendition without
the ambiguities of a nearest neighbor filter
(since no glyph could be repeated font-wise)
is a goal that we share between thousands of
pixel artists and coders for about 50 years…

RESEMBLANCES
• Optimizations;
• pixel/dot/etc.

PERSPECTIVE
A single creation cannot revolutionize thousands of years of writing,
next decades of digital trials (15 dots and less in US-ASCII), IMVHO.
Yet, any solution may be useful, sooner or later, as it is or edited.
* 3×4-/3×3-/2×4-, even 2×2-px Latin glyphs are getting less uncommon.

CYA!
My greeting to the maintainer of FontStruct,
the sponsors, fontstructers & forum members.

Comment by dpla 5th june 2021

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