Recently, I was reading WebtasticLand’s Colophon and being the Macintosh fan that I am, I couldn’t help but follow the link to the minifonts (which I will probably buy, btw). The all-new minifonts site tells interesting things about pixel fonts.
When I was at High School, I designed my own 5x5 font on 1mm grid paper and began toying with the idea of a 5x7 font (I had just an Amstrad CPC at that time)
The thing is, I stumbled upon Susan Kare’s work. And, hours later, I went to Zeldman’s and was given more of the same.
So, I cannot help but admire UI pioneer Susan Kare’s work.
And is with a great consciousness about pixel fonts that I approached the Jornada. I will look into replacing the default system font with a pixel font, so as to have more presentational density.
BTW, looking at my site with the Pocket Explorer I realize it is due for a redesign. I was going to do it anyway, but now I have something to test it with. Scaled images look ugly on the Jornada display, now I have a excuse for using pixel fonts…