Short: Fonts for use with Workbench, newsreaders, etc Author: Mark Knibbs Uploader: Mark Knibbs Type: text/bfont Architecture: generic Here are some compact bitmap fonts, suitable for use with Workbench and other software. I have designed them over a long period (since the late 1980s) using the FED and Typeface font editors. I use Icon/8 as Workbench icon font, and Thin/9 as system default font. Please notify me if you find any errors or inconsistencies. Note that the character with hex code $A0 (" ", non-breaking space, obtained by typing alt- space on the keyboard) is represented in these fonts by a glyph which looks similar to a dollar sign. Character $A0 in the ROM topaz font is blank. This is an artefact of the way FED shows character $A0. You can edit the fonts to make character $A0 blank if you wish. The fonts are: Excel - 8x8 and 10x9 pixels ----- A replacement for the ROM Topaz font. You can use FF (from the Workbench 1.3 disk) to replace the ROM font with this one. Add a line like this to your startup-sequence to replace the 8- and 9-pixel ROM fonts: C:FF >NIL: -n Excel.font ;Replace ROM topaz font with custom one ExcelCondensed - 7x8 pixels -------------- A thinner version of Excel/8 (7 pixels wide as opposed to 8). This looks better on screens which have a near-1:1 aspect ratio (e.g. NTSC:High Res Laced), and allows more text to fit on the screen. pExcel - 8 and 9 pixels ------ pExcelCondensed - 8 pixels --------------- These are proportional versions of Excel and ExcelCondensed; they look nicer in applications that allow proportional fonts to be used. Thin - 6x7, 6x8 and 6x9 pixels ---- A small fixed-width font ThinCondensed - 5x7 and 5x8 pixels ------------- A condensed version of Thin. Icon - 7 and 8 pixels ---- IconCondensed - 7 and 8 pixels ------------- Proportional versions of Thin and ThinCondensed. MUI users may like to use IconCondensed/7 as their MUI tiny font. To Do ===== Excel/11 (p)ExcelCondensed/9 ThinCondensed/9 (5x9 pixels) Regards, -- Mark Knibbs mark_k@iname.com