This font can be used for your own posters or video games, such as NES, Atari, etc. (This Font is finished, you can now download it. Only Use if you're Latin or English.) Esta fuente se puede utilizar para sus propios carteles o los videojuegos, como NES, Atari, etc (Esta fuente ha terminado, ahora se puede descargar el programa. Sólo uso si eres latino, francés, español o Inglés.) Cette police peut être utilisé pour vos propres posters ou des jeux vidéo, comme NES, Atari, etc (Cette police est terminée, vous pouvez maintenant le télécharger. Utiliser uniquement si vous êtes latin, français, espagnol ou anglais.) Cette police peut être utilisé pour vos propres posters ou des jeux vidéo, comme NES, Atari, etc (Cette police est terminée, vous pouvez maintenant le télécharger. Utiliser uniquement si vous êtes latin, français, espagnol ou anglais.)
This was cloned from Kazuhito Morita's Computer System 5x20.
Please note that the remaining glyphs you see have been positioned to the left side. You may have to use FontForge before you can edit this font.
This is a clone of Computer System 5x20Original size: 15pt
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A font which has a spurless, sans-serif, pixelated polygonal look which is somewhat reminescent of fonts used in VHS technology.
A lot of applied science went into this design. It's designed to remain legible on all media in all use conditions, provided that one uses the original size or a multiple thereof. Numerous technologies and mediums were employed to realize this objective.
"Diaspora" was tested and refined for use with/on/against:
• CRT, LCD & e-Ink screens
• image formats & compressed imagery (GIF, JPG)
• printers (inkjet, bubble jet, laserjet, & thermal)
• analog video & multi-generational copies (VHS, Super 8)
• digital video (AVI, MP4, MPEG, WEBM, WMV)
• 3D and voxel models (Blender, MagicaVoxel, POV-Ray)
• dynamic scaling hardware (game consoles and capture devices)
• imagery plugins & filters, including image degraders
• image scaling/interpolation hardware & software
• image recognition hardware & software
These all have traits which degrade, distort, compress, glitch, or otherwise alter imagery in various ways. This design aims to minimize the loss of legibility from these effects and to attain the best scores possible in various forms of imagery analysis. So far, this has proved extremely useful, as it can remain fully legible even when extreme JPG or video compression are applied to it thousands of times.
A piece of software I helped write, called the Marinan Imagery Deconstruction AI System (MIDAS), is being used on captured images of this font. The end objective is to realize the design which has the best all-around Marinan Interpretability Value (MIV) for all the tested platforms - the design which is considered by MIDAS to be the most legible in the most media under the broadest range of use conditions and quality levels.
MIDAS uses a set of considerations made with both humans and computers in mind, so a high MIV does not necessarily equal a better font - it just means one that the system thinks is easier to visually interpret. Note the use of the phrase "visually interpret" as opposed to "read". MIDAS tries to determine how well people and computers can tell what shapes are, not how much enjoyment they'll get from reading or how much strain they might undergo while doing it.
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VERSION HISTORY:
1.0.0 - initial release.
1.0.1 - More Latin support added.
1.0.2 - First batch of tests run.
1.0.3 - gjy5&ßẞ were improved, some glyphs added.
1.0.4 - Second batch of tests run. Space width reduced.
1.0.5 - Experimentally converted to a rounded spurless design, then converted back to a plain spurless after testing. A few new ligatures were added.
1.0.6 - Cyrillic and Greek enter development. Many of these letters must be altered to be distinct from their Latin counterparts.
1.0.7 - Some spacing values changed to increase internal consistency. More difficult tests are being devised. However, since only I seem interested in this type of work, this project is going on hiatus for some time.
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See also: AMFA, a font built with similar considerations in mind
This is the first font I ever made since I obtained its first debut on January 25th, 2019. As you might have guessed, this is Computer System 5x20, but only the font you see has its size of 48 pixels.
I have also used Combining Diacritical Marks for this type of unicode only because not only it works with combining a diacritical mark into this letter, it can also be used for international/worldwide purposes.