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Tom Thumb Tiny ASCII font (3x5)

Author: 
Robey Pointer
(Submitted by congusbongus)
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 14:18
Art Type: 
2D Art
Tags: 
bitmap font
pixel font
font
3x5
ascii
ascii font
pixel
Pixel Art
User Interface
License(s): 
CC0
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This is a tiny ASCII font, 3x5 usable pixels (white with black outlines, so 5x7 total; descenders are 1px). Suitable for very low resolution and embedded screens, or if you just want some really really small text.

Some Latin1 characters are also included, but are not complete.

The main font is white but contains grey pixels to improve visibility.

The font looks best as a proportional font, but monospace is fine too.

The font is currently used in the open source game C-Dogs SDL.

Updates

  • 2015-06-05: Change license to CC0
  • 2015-06-06: Add more Latin-1 characters thanks to usr_share

About the license

Note that this is derived from Tom Thumb by Robey Pointer, which is in turn derived from a VT100 emulator by Brian Swetland. The original work is licensed under BSD 3-clause, but the author gave permission for relicensing under any license of Robey Pointer's choosing:

> However, given the simplicity of the font content, the fact that he made a number of significant changes (relative to the tiny size of the work), the fact that to the best of my understanding there's limited protection for the content of bitmap fonts under US copyright law anyway (though I'm not a lawyer and not offering legal advice), I have absolutely no objection if Robey would like to distribute his font under different terms than I distributed mine.

> http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/how-to-submit-art-using-the-3-clause-bsd-license

Also, Robey Pointer agreed to license under CC0 or CC-BY

> Either CC0 or CC-BY 3.0 sounds fine to me! My intent is to let anyone use it for any purpose.

> http://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html#comment-1526952840

 

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font.png font.png 2.7 Kb [1493 download(s)]
tom-thumb-new.png tom-thumb-new.png 3.3 Kb [942 download(s)]
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FuzzyWuzzie
joined 12 years 4 months ago
03/26/2015 - 00:13

Nice font! However that's some pretty intense licensing you have there, and I'm not sure they're all compatible with each other.

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Clint Bellanger
joined 15 years 9 months ago
03/26/2015 - 00:21
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FuzzyWuzzie: here on OpenGameArt, multiple licenses mean you can choose whichever one works best for you. Not that you must follow every license listed. Hope this helps!

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FuzzyWuzzie
joined 12 years 4 months ago
03/26/2015 - 00:22

Ahh, neat. I didn't know about that!

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devurandom
joined 12 years 11 months ago
03/26/2015 - 03:26

Added Cyrillic characters for Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. Tried to make them readable. Because of that, the letters Йй and Ўў have dashes instead of curved breves above.

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congusbongus
joined 11 years 7 months ago
04/25/2015 - 19:22
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Thanks usr_share! Would you like to share your addition under the listed licenses?

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devurandom
joined 12 years 11 months ago
04/25/2015 - 22:48

Yes, of course.

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