Hi all,
I 'designed' a pixel font for hiragana and katakana a while ago. As I only used it in a piece of software for a calculator (that was a HP 49+) there was no need to have more than a bundle of gifs around, which I think I carried over via the hand method later with the 1 for a black pixel and a 0 for a blank pixel (pretty pretty boring...).
It was aimed to be as small as possible, which was kind of a challenge, as that didn't seem to exist yet... (At least you give up searching at a certain point and just do it by yourself...
It turned out to be 7x7 pixels for hiragana and 5x7 for katakana, preserving a good readability. The dakuten needed an extra of 2 or 3 pixels each time inserted after a character. Funnily I can't remember exactly.. Special characters as ゐ, ゑ, ヰ, ヱ, ヶ, ヵ and small vowels are included.
Still I think there is nothing like that around - why should there? Display size doesn't matter any more!
But maybe someone is willingto do something with it. What about rendering a proper font of it - which I tried, but somehow, I think, not hard enough... Wouldn't it be cool to use such a weird looking pixel language in a design of yours... or.. whatever?
So, please feel free to use it (of course under GPL conditions, or whatever..)
By the way the kanji pixel data for my unfinished 'app' was taken from JWP by Glenn Rosenthal. Funny thing that he told me he had no idea who owned the copyright for that
http://www.mediafire.com/?n92c6tuc9mcgx8i
Please have fun!
I 'designed' a pixel font for hiragana and katakana a while ago. As I only used it in a piece of software for a calculator (that was a HP 49+) there was no need to have more than a bundle of gifs around, which I think I carried over via the hand method later with the 1 for a black pixel and a 0 for a blank pixel (pretty pretty boring...).
It was aimed to be as small as possible, which was kind of a challenge, as that didn't seem to exist yet... (At least you give up searching at a certain point and just do it by yourself...
It turned out to be 7x7 pixels for hiragana and 5x7 for katakana, preserving a good readability. The dakuten needed an extra of 2 or 3 pixels each time inserted after a character. Funnily I can't remember exactly.. Special characters as ゐ, ゑ, ヰ, ヱ, ヶ, ヵ and small vowels are included.Still I think there is nothing like that around - why should there? Display size doesn't matter any more!
But maybe someone is willingto do something with it. What about rendering a proper font of it - which I tried, but somehow, I think, not hard enough...
Wouldn't it be cool to use such a weird looking pixel language in a design of yours... or.. whatever?So, please feel free to use it (of course under GPL conditions, or whatever..)
By the way the kanji pixel data for my unfinished 'app' was taken from JWP by Glenn Rosenthal. Funny thing that he told me he had no idea who owned the copyright for that
http://www.mediafire.com/?n92c6tuc9mcgx8i
Please have fun!
