pxl2000 font, release 0.95 Florian Cramer 1. Description pxl2000 is a free ISO 8859-15 (i.e. ISO 8859-1 with Euro symbol) encoded monowidth dot matrix typeface for the X Win- dow system (X11). It is currently available in nine sizes: 4x8, 5x10, 6x12, 7x14, 8x16, 9x18, 10x20, 11x22 and 12x24 pixels. 2. Design objectives o Readability; fitness to be used as a default screen font, especially on reverse-color X11 terminals o Optimization for program code through visually distinct characters L, l, 1, 7, |, I, i and 0, O, , o, . o Complete ISO 8859-15 character set. o Many point sizes to ensure optical consistency across dif- ferent computers with different screen resolutions (encom- passing anything from PDA displays to 20" screens). o Fitness for displaying ASCII art and codework/code poetry, from viewing graphics in aview, watching TV in ttv and DVDs in mplayer with "-vo aa" to reading mailinglists like _arc.hive_, 7-11 and wryting in mutt. o Clean, minimalist visual design; no serifs, a square minuscle base matrix, rounded edges. This is a computer terminal font; it should not look like a low-res imitation of print type. The author employs this font in his "anti-desktop" setup consisting of the ratpoison window manager and GNU screen inside an rxvt (with reverse color and no scroll- bars), similar to what is described in . 3. Number of characters per line The following table shows the number of characters per line each font size allows at typical screen resolutions: -2- +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ | | 4x8 | 5x10 | 6x12 | 7x14 | 8x16 | 9x18 | 10x20 | 11x22 | 12x24 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ |320x240 | 80 | 64 | 53 | 45 | 40 | 35 | 32 | 29 | 26 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ |640x480 | 160 | 128 | 106 | 91 | 80 | 71 | 64 | 58 | 53 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ |800x600 | 200 | 160 | 133 | 114 | 100 | 88 | 80 | 72 | 66 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ |1024x768 | 256 | 204 | 170 | 146 | 128 | 113 | 102 | 91 | 85 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ |1280x960 | 320 | 256 | 213 | 182 | 160 | 142 | 128 | 116 | 106 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ |1600x1200 | 400 | 320 | 266 | 228 | 200 | 177 | 160 | 145 | 133 | +----------+-----+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+-------+ 4. Screenshots 5. Download 6. Etymology The name of this typeface relates to the 1980s Fisher-Price PXL2000 toy video system which recorded low-resolution black and white video on standard audio cassette tapes. PXL2000 technology was, for a long time, popular among video experi- mentalists (see ). -3- 7. Installation Installation and usage instructions are provided in the file INSTALL. 8. Copyleft Copyright 2002, 2003 Florian Cramer, cantsin@zedat.fu- berlin.de This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license, see accompanying file COPYING for details. 9. Thanks/Acknowdlegements Mark Leisher for xmbdfed, George Williams for pfaedit, Hiroto Kagotani for bdfresize, Keith Packard for bdftopcf