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Just this morning I have been working on a font rasterizer for an eink screen project. So it’s really interesting to see one this small.

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if you're in the market for something slightly bigger, I've found this font to be useful on lowish-res (640x480) displays: https://github.com/josuah/miniwi

The size of the characters in pixels is not given in their readme, nor could I find it easily in the config files. Can you tell me how big the characters in its readme are?

looks like 3x5, or 4x8 if you include the whitespace

The lowercase "s" is only 4 px tall. The "f" and "y" add 2 px above and below, so the total reserved height must be 8px. Then 2 more px for whitespace, so 10.

It's a 4x8 grid, like I said. https://lukeshu.com/dump/miniwi-grid.png

Weird that the lowercase letters with ascenders are taller than normal uppercase, I didn't notice that. But yeah, the core numbers+uppercase box is 3x5 (with only "Q" violating that). And it's all on a 4x8 grid.

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