Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall

Posted by JdeBP 9/13/2025

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall(joefatula.com)

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Eric_WVGG 9/14/2025|

Really like that zero glyph. I wonder if, instead of Roman numerals, one could use ligatures to encode numeric strings as binary… 42 as 010101

(I sort of randomly picked 42, didn't know it was such an interesting string… Douglas Adams must have known that)

sugarkjube 9/14/2025|

101010 - I'm guessing you know, and want to find out how long it takes for someone to notice and respond.

hidroto 9/14/2025|||

little endian vs big endian.

FabHK 9/14/2025||

Also, typing it out while you run the algo in your head: 42 even -> 0, 21 odd -> 1, 10 even -> 0, 5 odd -> 1, 2 even -> 0, 1 odd -> 1.

Eric_WVGG 9/14/2025|||

ah, I never actually bothered to read up on binary notation. I only know it via party tricks (counting to a thousand on two hands)

Naracion 9/14/2025||

Fwiw--Joe is also the creator of Leaving Earth:

https://joefatula.com/#leavingearth

librasteve 9/14/2025||

I eagerly await the use of this font in Microsoft’s new EULA

Jowsey 9/14/2025||

Some of the characters/words (particularly "c"/"can") sort of look like they've been cropped from the top, trusting the brain to fill in the bottom half. Reminds me of what Sandisk did with the "S" in their redesign. I wonder if there's any research behind this?

komali2 9/14/2025||

xyv, bl, hi, in various cap/uncapped formats, are the same characters or nearly indistiguishable. I'm trying to craft the most unreadable sentence possible. I got as far as "Hi, THe czech's bliss is exact"

ChrisArchitect 9/14/2025||

A thread last year with lots of related subpixel type things:

Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735675

shakna 9/14/2025||

> You can probably read this, even if you wish you couldn't.

Um... Nope. I can't.

I can get some of the letters, but not most of them, unfortunately.

Love the concept, and the art, that goes into things like this. But I just cannot read it.*

* I have nerve problems in my eyes. I'm not legally blind... Most of the time.

jader201 9/14/2025||

Yeah, a lot of words/letters made sense, but I definitely had to use some deduction to read it.

Interesting, and given the limitation, it’s quite impressive.

But I think “probably” is optimistic. I’d say “possibly” is more realistic.

IshKebab 9/14/2025||

It's not easy but I definitely could read it. It's easier if you don't try and read each word fully before continuing.

shakna 9/15/2025||

Yeah, scanning usually just needs start and end of each word. But as I can't get the endings, I can't get the word.

Cloudef 9/14/2025||

Trying to read the text produced by this font makes my brain hurt

NooneAtAll3 9/14/2025||

I was so confused why "o" in the example was wider than "o" written myself - until I understood that example has it capitalized... That seems useless

brador 9/14/2025|

It says in all caps: “YOU CAN PROBABLY READ THIS, EVEN IF YOU WISH YOU COULDN'T. IT TENDS TO BE EASIER TO READ AT SMALLER SIZES.”

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