David JONESAnnouncing Clive, a new font inspired by Clive Sinclair's ZX81.
https://drj11.itch.io/clive-font
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Clive is the second font that is built using entirely my own tools (the other is Dorothy Norma). At least, second released font; i have a few more unreleased. The pipelines are mixes of Python, text files, SVG, and Go tools. No font-editors like Glyphs or Fontra. Even the final TTF binaries are compiled using my own Go programs.
Clive: https://drj11.itch.io/clive-font
Dorothy Norma: https://drj11.itch.io/norma-font
Norma is likely to lose this status soon by moving to `fontmake` (like Fifteenel).
A few people have said kind words about my new font Clive, and kind words are always appreciated. But for this release i would say that they are particularly appreciated, because while i was preparing the release of Clive i had a massive crisis of confidence (more so than usual :) ) and imagined that there was no way this font was any good: it was just a pile of ZX81 graphics that wasn't entertaining or interesting in any way. So thank you for your kind words and support.
Roel Nieskens@drj If you slap on a #retrogaming and #retrocomputing hashtag this dope little font will pop up in the feed of even more people who'd appreciate it!
@pixelambacht yes, good idea. My hashtag game is not very strong.
John Kennedy@drj It is brilliant.
@micefearboggis aww thanks!
wakest likes your bugs ⁂@drj this font is great and original! The idea of the two tone in a pixel font is super, I had never thought of that
@liaizon for the keen, i have a few more (draft) notes here https://gitlab.com/drj11/font-clive/-/blob/main/portfolio.md?ref_type=heads
The two-tone is one of those things, it just seemed natural when i had the idea, and then maybe so natural others would have thought of it. I'm actually surprised the effect was never used on the ZX81 itself on a title screen or something (at least, i haven't seen such).
Szescstopni@drj Wonderful work.
Dries
Alexandre B A Villares 🐍
Paul van der Laan@drj Nice! The horizontally stretched pixels don’t really communicate ZX81 to me TBH. It seems to belong more to the 8 bit Commodore and Atari systems with their various graphic modes.
@paulvanderlaan more details here (in draft) https://gitlab.com/drj11/font-clive/-/blob/main/portfolio.md?ref_type=heads
@paulvanderlaan to pointlessly over-emphasize this point, the semigraphics used to make the Clive font are now produced directly from the ZX81 ROM :) https://gitlab.com/drj11/font-semi81 . There is no change in the actual Clive font, so i haven't re-released it. I feel like bytes have souls, so the soul of the ZX81 ROM will make it into Clive in its next release.
@paulvanderlaan @drj Wait, where do you see those?Z
@paulvanderlaan yes, i am familiar with those. I think what @pixelambacht was asking is, where do you see stretched pixels in Clive? I can't speak for them, but i assume you meant the 4x8 half-blocks (which currently are 4x8 exactly square pixels, but that may change in the next release based on some stunning research on microcomputer pixel clocks).
@drj @paulvanderlaan Yeah, I was asking about the font. Stretched C64 multicolor pixels are familiar territory :-)
@drj I posted it on the typography community here https://piefed.social/post/1248945
Clive is a font built from the semigraphics of the ZX81 microcomputer.
Its made by David Jones who is active on the fediverse at [@[email protected]](https://typo.social/@drj) You can [download it here](https://drj11.it…
Marco 197@drj awsome
Jorge Bejarano@drj awesome work!
@guayabito thank you!
Amber (transsexual tech catgirl)@drj oh that's awesome