[FelipeCortez]

1x5 can also work if you take advantage of subpixel rendering https://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/

[FrostKiwi]

Actually blown away by how good that works with my 1920x1200 8-bit HP Z24n G2 monitor [1] and my Laptop's 1920x1080 6-bit Panel [2]

[2x5-HP-Z24n-G2] https://i.imgur.com/yLyrpfg.jpeg

[1x5-HP-Z24n-G2] https://i.imgur.com/Z7kH005.jpeg

[2x5-Innolux-N156HCA-GA3] https://i.imgur.com/F4Ypxwj.jpeg

[1x5-Innolux-N156HCA-GA3] https://i.imgur.com/etkot5o.jpeg

[1] https://jp.ext.hp.com/monitors/business/z_z24n_g2/

[2] https://www.panelook.com/N156HCA-GA3__15.6__overview_33518.h...

[benj111]

The content isn't viewable in my area. Presumably the UK has rules about minimum font sizes.

[subscribed]

No, it's the ultra authoritarian government stopping you from viewing it.

Replace "imgur.com" in the links with "rimgo.bcow.xyz" and consider voting against the parties of surveillance next time you can :)

[chownie]

> No, it's the ultra authoritarian government stopping you from viewing it.

Wish people wouldn't keep repeating this, imgur block the UK because they were caught with GDPR violations.

The fact their UK wide IP block came in around the same time as the online safety act is the only reason they can continue to quietly pretend it's the government's fault. Imgur is the reason you can't view imgur, it is not the UK Govt (this time)

[Timwi]

Do you have a source for that claim? I'm curious. I genuinely thought it was the OSA.

[juliusceasar]

Talking about fake news, I bet you get your news from Fox News.

"The UK's data watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), said it recently notified the platform's parent company, MediaLab AI, of plans to fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children's personal data."

[Steve16384]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

[snthpy]

I couldn't make out the 1x5 properly but the 2x5 was totally readable.

[JohnDotAwesome]

Amazing. I zoomed in with my phone on the generated image and was surprised to see I could just make out the text! https://storage.j0.hn/subpixelfont.png - Also wow my screen is dirty af

[jkonline]

Suggest you check your .htaccess (or however you secure your server) for storage.j0.hn.

[dlevine]

Subpixel rendering only gives you 3 effective pixels. M and N aren't really readable with less than 5.

[account42]

Not all displays have a simple horizontal subpixel layout though.

[rossant]

Whoa, amazing!

[dcanelhas]

I figured 2x4 would be the theoretical minimum since ascii characters are 1 byte each (without extensions). 1x5 with color is impressive, even if it is sort of like a faux 3x5

[throwaway27448]

It seems like you need 2x5 for legibility

[dorianmariecom]

"if you look closely at the screen"

[Tade0]

My child has one of those "Kids' microscopes":

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kids'-Microscopes/zgbs/t...

Magnification is around 5x, but this is more than enough to see subpixels.

[CGMthrowaway]

I was annoyed that all the images of the pixel fonts were larger than they actually ostensibly would be on a tiny screen, so I zoomed out my browser all the way on macbook pro retina screen, only to find the tiny letters of the blog text were 100x more readable than any of the pixel fonts in the post.

And if the pixel font images were to be rendered at actually 5 pixels on my Retina screen, because the resolution of Retina screen is so tiny, the pixel fonts would still be unreadable without a microscope.

So while it's a cool project, as long as we can put Retina-dense screens in things, we are past the point where there is any useful need for a 5 pixel font

[benj111]

FTA "Even a low-resolution 384x288 display has 110 thousand pixels: way too big to fit in the AVRs memory"

[bagels]

$30 devices don't have apple screens.

[cafebabbe]

Retro games

Electronic devices

Fine prints in images