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# Fixedsys Excelsior font with programming ligatures
## Original copyright
Created by Darien Valentine
[Font website](http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com)
## It looks like this
<img src="./images/sample.png" />
## Where to get the result without compiling
The compiled TTF binary font is on the Releases page.
## Rationale
I was always jealous for folks using [Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode),
[Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) or [Monoid](https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid)
fonts, but my problem is that I have a hard time reading (not even mentioning writing)
a computer program in anything but 8x16 font. I probably spent too much time with older
computers. So after fighting and losing an uphill battle with Glyph2, Fontlab and Fontforge
I discovered [TTX](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools) and was able to finally stop being jealous.
This current release has almost everything I use regularly, besides `<$>` and
`<*>` which I will add soon. I'm also thinking about doing ligatures for
`{-` and `-}`. Other than that feel free to request in the issues. PRs are of course
more than welcome. I hope I'm not the only crazy guy on the internet using 8x16
font for consoles and text editing.
## History
This font is a simulated 8x16 bitmap font from old Windows and DOS. It was
truly monospaced and really bitmapped and initially contained only Western ASCII
charset.
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He also added a lot of foreign characters and made the font Unicode.
## Tech trivia
The font is distributed in binary TTF format and I decompiled it with
[TTX](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools), added a few symbols inspired by
[Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode) and created necessary ligatures.