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ABOUT

Eyvind Kolaas

Designer of the free display typeface family 0xA000 (2015, Open Font Library). This was quite a programming effort: Design inspiration is often fuelled by constraints. In that spirit, 0xA000 started out as an experiment in trying to create a pixel font with greyscale squares for anti-aliasing. The initial ASCII set was made first as an image in GIMP and a custom C program to turn the image into a UFO file where each set pixel referenced a component1 For easier editing, the program was changed to output an XPM-inspired text file description of the font, where the character mapping for different greyscale pixel values can be controlled. 0xA000 uses fontile, kernagic, fontforge and ttfautohint to transform source text-files into TTF files. Github link.

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