diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7d15c53..cabc2f9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,13 +1,31 @@ # Fixedsys Excelsior font with programming ligatures +## Original copyright Created by Darien Valentine [Font website](http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com) +## It looks like this +## 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. @@ -18,6 +36,7 @@ off. The size is 16px or 12pt. 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.