I made a Pixel Font ... it's not easy

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Ай бұрын

I tried to design a pixel font, ... but it has some issues.
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This video is NOT part of the #AlphabetSuperset by @struthless because I'm still working on "W" xD
#pixelart #font #typeface
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Music: Little Slime's Adventure by Sergey Spencer_YK from Pixabay
Outro Music: 8 bit background music for Arcade Game. Come on, Mario! from White_Records on Pixabay
Sound FX: from Pixabay

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@gaming_odyssey5399 Ай бұрын

Maybe you could try using semi-transparent pixels? Similar to the two color font

@lucky-jacob Ай бұрын

I try not to use transparency as much, but just for the font, this is probably the most feasible approach. Thank you!

@inkfox215 Ай бұрын

The idea of using 2 colours are so cool! What a great inspiration on future development maybe

@lucky-jacob Ай бұрын

Haha 😅 people seem to like the two color thing. Thought it might look odd tbh

@EtherRainbow Ай бұрын

@@lucky-jacob it doesnt look odd to me at all!! seriously, you're onto something genius! Please pursue this path further!

@lucky-jacob Ай бұрын

let's see where the road leads :-P

@themustardthe 6 күн бұрын

i made something really similar a few years ago; its really cool how different some of your interpretations of the letters look from mine even in such a small space!

@lucky-jacob 6 күн бұрын

Had the same experience, I thought everyone would come up with the exact same combination of pixels on a scale like that ... but it turns out people are pretty creative xD

@lyghtkruz Ай бұрын

The two color thing on the numbers looked great. I have always struggled with this issue with pixel fonts, our alphabet is annoying 😅 certain letter have to look weird or be wider than everything else. I might try the 2 color thing next time I do this.

@lucky-jacob Ай бұрын

Share somer pics if you do 😁

@jan_harald Ай бұрын

one idea is to just not do some letters ;P e.g. combining U/V as they only became separate in the last couple hundred years, or writing W as literally double V (or U), W=VV, also I/J are often combined, but I don't think you need that with fonts, using two colors can be very helpful in e.g. manually aliasing stuff to make things more legible, I don't think having the confusable M/N combined, or left ambiguous, is all that bad either, "I don't have nuch noney right now, I'n sorry", "I saw am elephamt, amd it was great" you can still quite easily read it, they even sound quite similar after all, though, the smaller the size you go to, the less unique letter shapes there are, or rather, actually legible shapes you don't have to squint and try to guess at fun fact: VGA font, what BIOSes use (and on e.g. linux, also initial boot log), is generally about 8x9 pixels, and I can strongly recommend looking at the fonts on int10h (dot) com's retro font collection, for ideas about how people in the old days did pixel fonts (youtube sometimes hates when people put links in comments, often hiding those comments outright, for no good reason, just randomly, even creators have complained they themselves have sometimes trouble with links in comments, nobody knows when it happens, or why) Ken Perlin has basically the smallest ever font out there, though it's not really a usable/reable one funny thing, you can look up e.g. the 3x3 pixel font that is very barely readable, and...it's surprisingly possible to more or less read it, with some difficulty, when text is written with it, because you know what words are supposed to look like, so "Th??'s" you can figure out to be "There's", and so on

@Wilker_uwu 24 күн бұрын

the whole gimmick of the letter W and M is that these are the two latin letters that takes up the most horizontal space out of all the 36 or so characters in the basic ASCII. while it is possible to have the M barely distinguishable in a 4x4 pixel font, the W is a weird one to design. in fact, in most other contexts with common fonts, you can definitely use a bunch of WWWWWW in addition to the usual lorem Ipsum to test out text spacing to see if enough stuff will fit the screens you're designing. the two colors solution works nicely, just remember to make sure the colors also works well when set to monochrome (taking brightness into account) to account for people who have a harder time seeing colors.

@matjp99 2 күн бұрын

good video, your editing quality is good you will grow your channel in no time if you keep going

@degariuslozak2169 8 күн бұрын

I thought it said pixel fart at first😂

@lucky-jacob 7 күн бұрын

I just had an idea for an entirely new video xD

@NeisamPi 28 күн бұрын

Whenever I used a 4 pixel tall "E" I put the middle one on the top. It just looks a little off on the bottom but that might just be me.

@lucky-jacob 26 күн бұрын

🍅 / 🍅 I guess

@NeisamPi 26 күн бұрын

@@lucky-jacobthis still is a great font though!

@lucky-jacob 26 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@dacueba-games Ай бұрын

Now add the Kana and Jouyou Kanji to the font! :D

@lucky-jacob Ай бұрын

xD let's go!

@jamesmillerjo 25 күн бұрын

@@lucky-jacob And Korean letters also 밟핥꿺첂퇬

@lucky-jacob 22 күн бұрын

@@jamesmillerjo

@Poly_0000 28 күн бұрын

really cool stuff! the lowercase 'e' could use some work though.

@lucky-jacob 26 күн бұрын

I'm open to suggestions here xD

@salamiwallnut 14 күн бұрын

@@lucky-jacobmaybe you could do what you did with the lowercase "g" and put a bottom line there

@user-zc3wi9ri2k Ай бұрын

nice

@lucky-jacob Ай бұрын

Thanks

@jacobgray3112 4 күн бұрын

The m and doubleyou can be fixed with a 4 pixel render like so. X X XXXX X X X X

@lunaponta594 16 күн бұрын

i dont have a problem with the old a as much as i have with the lowercase e. the missing line at the bottom is really really distracting for me, and makes it a bit hard to read edit: i know it's hard to make it without doing the letter a pixel above, but the e just can't be like that for me :')

@lucky-jacob 14 күн бұрын

Yeah, I get that. I literally had to cut some corners there. I recently saw a different approach for an 'e' in that size, which is basically just rotating the 'a' 180°. Works pretty well and fixes that issue.