Marcin WicharyThis week at Config I gave a talk about pixel fonts that I think turned out really well.
It’s called “In defense of an old pixel,” and I don’t think I ever worked harder on a talk before. Check it out here! (25 minutes)
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Part of it was a fun audience collaboration where we all took a stab at designing an 8x8 pixel font letter. This is a video taken by one of the audience members that shows what it felt like in the moment:
And this is the end result, after volunteer moderators removed all the irrelevant – and sometimes not-safe-for-the-slides – submissions. It’s 1,225 letters sent in from the audience within a few minutes.
Would anyone be interested in behind-the-scenes walkthrough in how this talk was made? Please let me know + whether there are specific things you might be curious about!
Federico Reinfeld@mwichary yes! Absolutely. I was in awe at all the screen animations, the way you rendered the bitmaps with the fuzzy CRT look…