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Monospaced bitmap fonts

14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 5 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-09-21 · latest 2026-05-24

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  1. …text mode), and for that they use spleen. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/dev/wsfont?sort=File https://github.com/fcambus/spleen And yes, it’s quite nice.
    comment by skydhash · 2026-05-24 · in Time to talk about my writerdeck
  2. …because you need to add spacing so really they need a 6x6 or 4x6 grid. I'm quite fond of Spleen: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen It has a 5x8 font which has all of ASCII, but most glyphs are actually 4x8 and include horizontal spacing. I…
    comment by ludocode · 2026-04-22 · in 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
  3. …the console font to "Spleen" several years ago. It's a pity that there isn't a TrueType version. https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
    comment by chasil · 2024-08-28 · in The Monospace Web
  4. That Spleen font looks great: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
    comment by 1MachineElf · 2021-10-09 · in NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen
  5. …default for OpenBSD drm console, although using a different size. It's constantly being updated. https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
    comment by dbolgheroni · 2021-07-10 · in Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
  6. …console font Spleen has a 5x8 version which, which is fairly legible while still looking nice: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen Any smaller than that and you're getting into ugly territory.
  7. Taking the opportunity to mention Spleen, which I've been working on for the past year: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen It is a monospaced bitmap font available in several sizes, ranging from 5x8 up to 32x64.
    comment by fcambus · 2019-10-20 · in Lesser Known Coding Fonts
  8. While I'm a huge fan of OpenBSD, you can actually just run this font on your current distro: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
  9. Font source with screenshots: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen