(keitai-l) Re: Tiny fonts

From: Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang <hubert_at_4w1h.com>
Date: 03/11/01
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0103111017130.7225-100000@cs.csoft.net>
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Mika Tuupola wrote:

> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:04:59 +0200 (EET)
> From: Mika Tuupola <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
> Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Tiny fonts
>
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang wrote:
>
> > With 120x 160 dots, you could hold a whole lot more. You only need
> > 6x11 to hold a recognizable English char (space included), so with
>
> 	Actually you need only 3x5 to make a readable (english) font.
> 	Take a look at:
>
> 		http://www.frotz.net/swetland/vt100/#font

I use the Palm font size. but you could always shrink 3x5 is a bit
too contrived. Try capital 'M'. Gosh... look aweful.
But thank you for the info.

Picking the font size in mobile phone is going to be limited until
the resolution (dpi) kicks in.


Hubert


>
> 	Other popular tiny font sizes are 3x6 and 5x9.
>
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Received on Sun Mar 11 18:12:42 2001