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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rclkrtrzckr 9/14/2025|

Pity there's no italics ...

SCNR

rimprobablyly 9/14/2025||

Abomination. I love it!

eipipuz 9/14/2025||

Is it just me or the s Z and z S should be swapped?

Minor49er 9/14/2025|

You're right. The capitals look fine, but the lowercased versions look swapped. I think this is because the creator decided to cut the spines for the uppercases and crop out the arms for lowercases. Since the arms and spine point in opposite directions for "s" and "z", it really hurts their identification

sehugg 9/14/2025||

The Atari 2600 had pretty good vertical resolution (assuming you could set up the next line in 76 cycles) but limited horizontal resolution. A 3x5 font is possible, but good luck distinguishing N from M.

This font seems to use characters up to 5 pixels wide, which helps with its near-legibility.

Dwedit 9/14/2025|

The thing to do with a 3x5 font is to make the capital N into a giant lowercase n. Then M H and W all become similar letters, just with a different location for the horizontal bar.

boredhedgehog 9/14/2025||

That's one of the possibilities, but one can also use asymmetry to evoke an illusion of diagonality, as in this font:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1426620/3x6-pixel...

notorandit 9/14/2025||

It is readable in English with quite some training and context. Many characters have the same representation.

I for one would say this is not generally usable and has a limited scope.

Interesting nonetheless.

kelvinquee 9/14/2025||

Love this. Brings so much joy. Try some punctuation. Hilarity ensues.

crm9125 9/14/2025||

Cool. I hate it.

qmr 9/14/2025||

Thanks, I hate it.

drob518 9/14/2025|

Now do 1 px.