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Title: Good small fonts for NTSC LCD screen
Post by: TheGoose on July 23, 2008, 09:04:51 PM

Anybody know a good small size font I could use to replace old Topaz 8?

Trying to maximize my space...

Title: Re: Good small fonts for NTSC LCD screen
Post by: meega on July 23, 2008, 09:45:41 PM

I quite like the xen font.

There is also the SmallFont (http://aminet.net/package/text/bfont/SmallFont) package.

And ThinFonts (http://aminet.net/package/text/bfont/ThinFonts)

Alternatively, load up Fed and make some :)

Title: Re: Good small fonts for NTSC LCD screen
Post by: TheGoose on July 25, 2008, 12:11:35 AM

Thanks, small font at 7pts is nice!

 :-D

Title: Re: Good small fonts for NTSC LCD screen
Post by: mark_k on July 28, 2008, 10:22:04 AM

Another package of small fonts to try is text/bfont/CompactFonts on Aminet (http://aminet.net/package/text/bfont/CompactFonts).

I designed those a while ago. Has nicer-looking (IMHO) replacements for topaz, and proportional versions, as well as some small proportional and fixed-width fonts. The fonts are:

Excel - 8x8 and 10x9: A replacement for the ROM Topaz font. You can use FF (from the Workbench 1.3 disk) to replace the ROM font with this one.

ExcelCondensed - 7x8: A thinner version of Excel/8 (7 pixels wide as opposed to 8). This looks better on screens which have a near-1:1 aspect ratio (e.g. NTSC:High Res Laced), and allows more text to fit on the screen.

pExcel - 8 and 9, pExcelCondensed - 8: These are proportional versions of Excel and ExcelCondensed; they look nicer in applications that allow proportional fonts to be used.

Thin - 6x7, 6x8 and 6x9: A small fixed-width font

ThinCondensed - 5x7 and 5x8: A condensed version of Thin.

Icon - 7 and 8 pixels, IconCondensed - 7 and 8 pixels: Proportional versions of Thin and ThinCondensed.