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
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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
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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
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pExcelCondensed - 8 pixels
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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
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A small fixed-width font

ThinCondensed - 5x7 and 5x8 pixels
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A condensed version of Thin.



Icon - 7 and 8 pixels
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IconCondensed - 7 and 8 pixels
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Proportional versions of Thin and ThinCondensed. MUI users may like to use
IconCondensed/7 as their MUI tiny font.



To Do
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Excel/11
(p)ExcelCondensed/9
ThinCondensed/9 (5x9 pixels)


Regards,
-- Mark Knibbs
mark_k@iname.com

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[generic]                 1022    2083  49.1% -lh5- 890a Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/CompactFonts.readme
[generic]                  153     248  61.7% -lh5- ae84 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/CompactFonts.readme.info
[generic]                   44     524   8.4% -lh5- a4bb Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Excel.font
[generic]                 1366    2632  51.9% -lh5- 1549 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Excel/8
[generic]                 1716    3256  52.7% -lh5- 7152 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Excel/9e
[generic]                   37     264  14.0% -lh5- 7c55 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/ExcelCondensed.font
[generic]                 1425    2440  58.4% -lh5- 6be6 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/ExcelCondensed/8
[generic]                   44     784   5.6% -lh5- eee5 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Icon.font
[generic]                 1353    2744  49.3% -lh5- 2f70 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Icon/7
[generic]                 1422    2868  49.6% -lh5- 7956 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Icon/8
[generic]                   52     784   6.6% -lh5- 55c2 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/IconCondensed.font
[generic]                 1272    2632  48.3% -lh5- 267a Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/IconCondensed/7
[generic]                 1333    2724  48.9% -lh5- 06f2 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/IconCondensed/8
[generic]                   43     524   8.2% -lh5- 7cde Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/pExcel.font
[generic]                 1756    3476  50.5% -lh5- 677d Mar  4  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/pExcel/8
[generic]                 1846    3860  47.8% -lh5- c1fe Mar  4  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/pExcel/9
[generic]                   37     264  14.0% -lh5- 2c78 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/pExcelCondensed.font
[generic]                 1518    3076  49.3% -lh5- adda Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/pExcelCondensed/8
[generic]                   45     784   5.7% -lh5- 26cb Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Thin.font
[generic]                 1276    2100  60.8% -lh5- d2e9 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Thin/7
[generic]                 1344    2248  59.8% -lh5- f232 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Thin/8
[generic]                 1347    2392  56.3% -lh5- fc77 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/Thin/9
[generic]                   46     524   8.8% -lh5- 2262 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/ThinCondensed.font
[generic]                 1145    1932  59.3% -lh5- 1884 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/ThinCondensed/7
[generic]                 1221    2040  59.9% -lh5- 8f20 Oct  5  1997 Compact Fonts/Fonts/ThinCondensed/8
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 Total        25 files   22863   47203  48.4%            Oct  6  1997