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Another thing I noticed is that the "!" is oriented to the left, would be nice to have it more central, as blanks look too large when following an exclamation mark.
Really liking this for my terminal thanks dude.
Another thing I noticed is that the "!" is oriented to the left, would be nice to have it more central, as blanks look too large when following an exclamation mark.
Ah crap. I just pushed it two 1.0 today, and it's up on my git repo and in the AUR. I had it that way so it would be in a better place when it comes at the end of a word (which is where you generally find these things, you know), but you're probably right. I'll mess with it over the next few days and see how I like it centered and not.
You can give it a shot too, if you want.
http://ubuntuone.com/7IxjrJYnkmav8eaY7m5qWK
Somebody on the Arch Forum wanted german quotation marks, so those are in there now too.
Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-11-10 00:08:07)
^Is that the same version as the one in AUR? Because that's what I'm using since the update. Thank you btw for dealing with all the requests and suggestions so intensive 
^Is that the same version as the one in AUR? Because that's what I'm using since the update. Thank you btw for dealing with all the requests and suggestions so intensive
The only difference in this tar is that the exclamation point is centered. Everything else is the same.
Just tested it, looks a lot better! Also: you really need to get a dev branch going 
Just tested it, looks a lot better! Also: you really need to get a dev branch going
Yeah. I don't totally get git. I need to ask about it. There actually is a dev branch, but I can't seem to push changes to it. No idea how the heck this works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeG4S-mJts
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does understanding everything perfectly kill the Hitler vids for Germans, or is it still funny?
Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-11-10 20:56:24)
Hitler is quite hard to understand when he rages, so it's partly funny 
. Though it's hard to concentrate on the subtitles.
Thank you btw for dealing with all the requests and suggestions so intensive
I wanted to comment on this, but I forgot. Anyway, at the end of the day, I'm doing the font for myself. However, listening to feedback has helped me make the font much better for myself as well as for other people. It's kinda like open source (well it is open source, except nobody else is actually contributing characters). People make the programs they need, but other people help make them better. I made the font I wanted, more or less, but sometimes my own ideas about how the font was supposed to look lead to poor design choices that were much more clear to other people without preconceptions about how it was supposed to look. In the end, I like the way it is much better now than how how it originally was.
For reference, the original font is here:
Not terrible, but clearly much rougher than it is now.
Alright, due to many requests, I've made a larger version of bitocra, bitocra13.
It's just ascii right now. Latin 1 coming soon (characters needed for Western European languages). These characters will be substituted from another font right now, so it will still be usable, but it won't be especially pretty.
file:
http://ubuntuone.com/6HdGq4uox1qDAWrf3G2SLW
I can't figure out how to make it into a proper bitocra font familiy, so this has a seperate family (bitocra13; making it the same family worked in rxvt-unicode, but not in any other program).
Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-11-12 15:53:00)
Awesome! Thank you so much, now my statusbar is perfect. On a side-note: This font uses the correct spacing in dzen2, whereas the small bitocra still has the old, larger one, maybe this helps you debugging it.)
Pushed a huge update to the bitocra repo today. The full iso8859-1 version is out. A lot of people have asked for a larger version of bitocra, and this is it.
Anyway, here's a nice scrot of bitocra13 doing it's thing:
Also included in the update for the first time is the bitbuntu font, a font with the same metrics and charset as bitocra, but more in the spirit of the Ubutnut font family. Here it is (on the right), pictured in blue alongside bitocra:
Finally, I've also released my tiny fonts, Nobody has actually ever asked me for fonts smaller than bitocra, but I wanted to mess around with them, so here are bitocra7 and 4thD (a 4x4 pixel font that I made for fun. Not especially recommended for anything except surveying large files in a single glance). Both currently only support ascii encoding, thought bitocra7 may eventually get iso8895-1 encoding. I actually like using it, but I'm sorta nuts over tiny fonts.
Here they are with a matrix-esque theme; 4thD on the left, bitocra7 on the right:
The readme is also in asciidoc format now, and the repo contains an html version of the file. Probably not too exciting, but I think it's cool. asciidoc is awesome.
Files in my git repo. I told my AUR guy, so updates should appear there soon as well.
Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-11-24 07:05:06)
It looks cool, but it hard for me to read.
If size is the issue, bitocra13 should be big enough for anybody. If style is the issue, bitbuntu uses more conventional shapes. If it's both, you're screwed. Use another font . (I can recommend edges and anorexia from artwiz package for a style similar to bitocra. Fixed is also a great bitmap font. I also like terminus, clean, cure, tasmyn, montecarlo and quite a few others.)
Last edited by ninjaaron (2011-11-30 20:31:56)
I like bitbuntu more than bitocra, but things might change as I like montecarlo-styled fonts.
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