@thecanine@twtxt.net Can you recommend me some good pixelated fonts?
@adi@twtxt.net Depends on what you’re looking for. If you want something a little bigger, but still very pixelated and don’t mind it only supporting English.
You can take the one used on my site( https://thecanine.ueuo.com )
You should keep in mind, that it’s more or less ripped from “Hypnospace Outlaw”, so probably not good for commercial use.
A smaller, most languages supporting and more commercially usable pixelfont is “uni05_53” by Craig Kroeger.
Sadly the version of this font, listed on the vast majority (if not all) font sites, includes a small error, that makes it unusable, for some European languages.
A fix for that was made by me, after getting Craigs permission, so if you like this font, it’s better to download my version of it, from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vEXYneABo6tAXdz2e0Er915uiiP5aFh-/
@thecanine@twtxt.net I may be settling on the one shown here https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/
Not sure about the licensing tho.
@adi@twtxt.net the real question is, will it bend?
I can bend just about anything. I am Bender!
@adi@twtxt.net That one is also nice, but not all too pixely. Don’t even know if I’d consider it a pixelated font, rather than just a “low resolution looking” one. 🤔
Both fonts are terrible to read for me. You really hurt the vision impaired by choosing such grainy poorly bendered fonts 😢
@prologic@twtxt.net That is unfortunate, but it probably applies to all heavily pixelated fonts, so if you’re aiming for that aesthetic, you don’t have a more accessible choice.
I only use those fonts on my website, where this issue can be mitigated, by turning off external fonts (in the browser settings), or using a screen reader.
This is not a perfect solution, but knowing that, I try to keep screen reader compatibility a high priority, during site rewrites. Along with making sure, the site looks alright, with the usual default browser fonts.
@thecanine@twtxt.net Yeah 😢
@thecanine@twtxt.net your website https://thecanine.ueuo.com doesn’t seem to exist within the US. It renders nothing.
@prologic@twtxt.net I’ll second this–I find it very hard to read too.
@bender@twtxt.net You’re the first person, to ever tell me that. I was testing the last minor rewrite, along with my friend from US, who had no trouble accessing it and all of my US VPN IPs connect too.
After the recent move, the site is now most likely hosted in the DFW Datacenter, located within the US. That’s not anything new either, as despite being European, I think the vast majority of my stuff, runs somewhere on your continent.
If this isn’t just some temporary outage, you might have to contact your ISP and demand a working service. I’m still checking here, but it doesn’t look like there’s any problems on my end.