Also uppercase was also standard on Eastern European computers, and I doubt they cared whether they could spell GOD all uppercase ;)
Also uppercase was also standard on Eastern European computers, and I doubt they cared whether they could spell GOD all uppercase ;)
Some examples of the time (often 7x8) https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Fonts
Another open source example for 8x8 and 8x16 is GNU Unifont
You can go down to 5x5 for upper case while still being readable https://www.dafont.com/5x5-pixel.font
Looked at the topic in the context of silk screen printing with normal steel mesh.
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...
The only notable exception I can think of is the ZX-80/81 which had notoriously rudimentary output capabilities because it was designed to be so cheap.
The followup model KC85/3 (https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc853.html) added the lowercase characters though, and the KC85/4 changed the font for better readability (but IMHO aesthetically less pleasing than the KC85/3 font): https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc854.html
...and when connecting such a machine to a TV via antenna input, reading the KC85/3 lowercase characters was indeed a bit of guesswork.