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halldave

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Posted: 05:37pm 21 Aug 2014

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Have published 13 8x8 Font Sets for general use these include

Style No Name
===== == ================
8x8 1 8X8 Standard
8x8 2 8X8 Italic
8x8 3 Hercules
8x8 4 Hercules Italic
8x8 5 Macintosh
8x8 6 Russian
8x8 7 Greek
8x8 8 Greek SanSerif
8x8 9 Armenian
8x8 10 Tiny Type
8x8 11 Space
8x8 12 Fantasy
8x8 13 Thin

2014-08-22_032808_8x8_Font_set.zip

Format of file

' Font Name: Hercules
' Font Type: 1=8x8
' Font Number: 3
' Font Image:
' File Format FontID,CharacterID,8x8Row1,8x8Row2,8x8Row3,8x8Row4,8x8Row5,8 x8Row6,8x8Row7,
' The files have 12 fields
' Field1 = Font type 1=8x8, 2=7Segment, 3=Nokia5110
' Field2 = Font Number
' Field3 = ASCII Character (0-255)
' Field4 to Field11 (in Hex, or Binary, or ASCII) representing the bits to turn on
' Field12 = kerning number, for proportional spacing
'

Example Code below

DATA 1,3,46,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H30,&H30,&H00,0 ' (.)
DATA 1,3,47,&H06,&H0C,&H18,&H30,&H60,&HC0,&H80,&H00,0 ' (/)
DATA 1,3,48,&H7C,&HC6,&HCE,&HDE,&HF6,&HE6,&H7C,&H00,0 ' (0)
DATA 1,3,49,&H30,&H70,&H30,&H30,&H30,&H30,&HFC,&H00,0 ' (1)
DATA 1,3,50,&H78,&HCC,&H0C,&H38,&H60,&HCC,&HFC,&H00,0 ' (2)
DATA 1,3,51,&H78,&HCC,&H0C,&H38,&H0C,&HCC,&H78,&H00,0 ' (3)

I will update the spi.Matrix library to use these font sets

Over the coming week I will also be publishing an spi.7Segment library for general use and a set of fonts specific to 7Segment

Over the coming week I will also be publishing and spi.Nokia library based on jmans code and a set of fonts specific to Nokia LCD's

Edited by halldave 2014-08-23

Geoffg

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Posted: 07:38pm 21 Aug 2014

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This is a great job. Fonts are difficult to construct and these are an excellent addition to my library.

Thanks.

Geoff

Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net

viscomjim
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Posted: 02:22am 22 Aug 2014

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This is awesome David. Thanks a million!!! Cant't wait to see new matrix library. Using the uMite is becoming better and better due to the efforts of people like you and this forum and its members!

CircuitGizmos

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Posted: 10:00am 22 Aug 2014

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Used this quick code to look at the characters.

CLS
FOR charset = 0 TO 254 'Full character set
DrawChar
PAUSE 500
CLS
NEXT charset

SUB DrawRow(rowval, offset)
FOR A = 80 TO 10 STEP -10
LINE (A, offset*10) - (A+ 10, offset*10+10), 1, B
IF (rowval AND &H01) = 1 THEN
LINE (A, offset*10) - (A+ 10, offset*10+10), 1, BF
ENDIF
rowval = INT(rowval / 2)
NEXT A
END SUB

SUB DrawChar
READ d1, d2, d3
FOR b = 1 to 8
READ crow
DrawRow crow, b
LOCATE 100, b*10
PRINT crow
NEXT b
READ d4
END SUB

END

' insert DATA here

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Oldbitcollector

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Joined: 16/05/2014
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Posted: 06:20am 23 Aug 2014

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Thank you Dave!

I've spent many hours creating variations of 8x8 and 7x7 fonts myself.
It can be tedious. Calculating the binary/hex for things like | you can do in your head, then creating an alternative to the & sign can send you looking for your pills. :)

Hope you don't mind if I share these with the Micromite Companion guys, we should have no problem reproducing these in our MODE 2.

Jeff

My Propeller/Micromite mini-computer project.

halldave

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Posted: 10:23am 23 Aug 2014

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Jeff

You can use them anywhere I don't mid

regards

David

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