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Definitely appreciate a new code font, even if this one doesn't so much look like it'd meet my everyday use. It's a bit too "thin", for lack of a better word, even if it does meet most of my requirements for distinguishing characters/numbers quickly.

But oh man do I love how readable that is at 5x11 pixels. That's beautiful, good work.

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Thanks, glad you like the small sizes.

By "thin", do you mean narrow and condensed, or do you mean the weight of the stems? For the former I wanted a decent amount of code to fit on a line -- I tend not to like the expanded look of some fonts and prefer something a bit more condensed. If you mean the weight, that's something of a design constraint due to trying to keep it crisp at low resolutions by grid-fitting to whole pixel boundaries.

I think it's the weight that's throwing me off--and yeah, I realized they were probably linked after I said it.

Yeah, I'd say it's too narrow for my tastes. But it's good to have more options.

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