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