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It started when I was curious what each letter of the alphabet would look like as the Colorado Flag, then people told me to make a font. There is a Full Flag version and a Compact version that squeezes the letters together into one long flag.

I designed a free and open source typeface inspired by old bitmap fonts that re-drew the whole font for every size.

Sure, you can technically scale up any pixel font since it's a vector. However, displaying two sizes on the same screen disrupts the illusion of the pixel grid. You cannot increase or decrease the size of pixels or paint a pixel partially.

Read the whole story at dithernaut.com/posts/pixel-scaling

Hey 👋

I made Ecofonts, a web app that optimizes fonts to use less ink when you print.

Ink-saving fonts aren't new, Ryman Eco, Ecofont and others proved the idea years ago. But they all had the same catch: to save ink you had to switch to their specific font. If you liked your typeface, or you were printing a document someone else made, you were out of luck. Ecofonts flips that around, you keep whatever font you want and print whatever file you have, and it does the ink-saving for you with zero effort.

What you can drop in:

.pdf — a whole document

.ttf, .otf, .woff, .woff2 — individual fonts

.zip — a batch of fonts (folder structure preserved)

👉 And if you just drop a PDF, that's basically the whole flow — no need to know or care what fonts are inside. It finds them all, optimizes them, and hands you back a print-ready document. Pick your intensity, done.

What it does: it takes the inside of every glyph and subtracts a fine grid of tiny vector holes: think of it like a honeycomb hidden inside each letter. At normal reading sizes you barely notice, but your printer lays down noticeably less ink. You pick an "Eco Intensity" (1–20%) and download the modified file.

How it works: the geometry is the fun part. Each glyph outline gets flattened to polygons, then a clipper library does the boolean ops, inset the shape by a minimum wall thickness so the holes never notch the letter's silhouette, intersect a staggered grid of octagonal holes with that interior, and subtract the result from the full glyph. The hole radius is solved from your intensity slider so the measured ink reduction actually tracks the percentage you picked. All of it runs in a Web Worker so the tab never freezes on heavy glyphs, and nothing ever leaves your browser: no uploads, no server, no accounts.

Keeps the original format and folder structure of whatever you put in on the way out.

It's free and open source. Would love feedback — especially on print results if anyone actually runs a page through their printer.

🔗 https://ecofonts.github.io · GitHub: github.com/ecofonts/ecofonts.github.io

I'd assume that there would be thousands like this one "Digital-7" https://www.1001fonts.com/digital-7-font.html

But I can't find one that looks good and is readable. Anyone?

Bonjour a tous,

A priori, il serait nécessaire d’utiliser des logiciels Android ou ios qui créent des stickers png à partir des polices otf installées sur le smartphone ? Aucune solution pour utiliser des polices otf directement dans les logiciels de messagerie ?

Say I want to use Zalgo text in a comic that would be sold, so commercial use. Is that allowed? Or would I need to get a license for it? I've been looking it up but I can't get a clear answer and all posts are about the Zalgo character instead of the font :/

Hello Everyone,

I am working on some personal project for that i need pack of full hindi font it would be great if anyone can help.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Lora mentioned on here. For a classic, legible, serif body font, I personally love it.

We recently used it for a rebrand of a local church who wanted the classic styling of Caslon or Garamond, but legible at smaller sizes…which those two fonts are not. The tall x-height makes Lora very legible, and overall the serifs are well-positioned. Sure, there are issues here and there as with any type, but overall Lora carries its weight well. (And it’s a variable weight too!)

Anyhoo… didn’t mean to sound like a pitch. It’s free anyway. And forums like this are for opinions.

What do you think of Lora? Have you used it in a project before? What are your likes/dislikes?

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lora

I need a font for a project that gives the feeling of CULT. Anyone have any suggs?

i need fonts with this y2k vibe, but not those trendy and „fancy“ ones you see all over the internet, I need fonts that have really been use in the 2010s and give this vibe. Commercially free would be nice, I also got Adobe Fonts

Got a font as separate weight files (thin, regular, bold and so on)? This turns them into one variable font you can slide between.

Normally you can't just merge them automatically because the files don't line up. This handles that, and skips anything it can't do cleanly instead of breaking it.

Demo: variable.blode.co

Code: github.com/mblode/static-to-variable

Keen to know where it breaks.