David JONESAnnouncing Clive, a new font inspired by Clive Sinclair's ZX81.
https://drj11.itch.io/clive-font
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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.
Roel Nieskens@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 :-)