Spleen Monospaced Bitmap Fonts

32 points by keyle 7 days ago

This is the console font for OpenBSD (on x86-64, at least).

I'm not sure I like it. A lot of the character shapes (like the C and S) feel too rectangular at large sizes. At smaller sizes, some of the alternate character shapes like the Y, and the rounded corners on characters like F and L, harm readability.

jasonjmcghee - a day ago

Did the ASCII art in the README get mangled?

duskwuff - a day ago

No, it's just an odd style of lettering inspired by graffiti throw-ups. I think this style is popular in the warez community.
(It just says "spleen". Nothing exciting.)
- unwind - a day ago
  
  TIL the term "throw-up", thanks!
  It's weirding me out that Wikipedia's page features graffiti of the word ... SPLEEN to illustrate [1]. Wut.
  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_up_(graffiti)
  - tolerance - a day ago
    
    Guy’s been getting up.
  - duskwuff - a day ago
    
    It's amazing how things come full circle sometimes.
- jasonjmcghee - a day ago
  
  Thanks - really had no clue. Turns out reading warez-style ascii art is not my forte!
Karliss - a day ago

Using the font itself and setting line spacing to 1 instead of whatever Github uses makes it slightly easier to understand.