Still dreaming of 24-pin printers...
This original 24×15 typeface is designed around the limitations presented by the near letter quality (NLQ) output of dot matrix printers (DMPs) during the '80s & '90s. Partially inspired by J. David Sapir's DOS font design program, LQMATRIX, it could have easily been created using that program back in the day.
(The "smart phone"-looking character in the À position is simply a placeholder, used as a quick reference to set vertical height lines while FontStructing.)
This font is a recreation of Richard Wisan's "ELITEQ.LQN" font file (c) 1990 for use with the program LQMATRIX. From Mr. Wisan's comment in the LQMATRIX documentation file: "ELITEQ.LQN: resembles Epson's resident Roman font, but slightly reduced to suit elite spacing."
LQMATRIX was a font design program for use with Epson LQ [Letter Quality] 24-pin dot matrix printers and compatibles. Created by noted linguist, anthropologist, and photographer J. David Sapir, the program had its beginnings in 1985 and was published by Jimmy Paris Software; the last known version that I have been able to find is version 4.44 (1991). Mr. Sapir included font set submissions from LQMATRIX users in some of the later updates; my version includes Mr. Wisan's file. A screenshot of the program is included in the comments section below.
While the graphics mode of dot matrix printers could print rather complex pictures, it remained extremely slow for large amounts of specialized text. By uploading an LQMATRIX font file into the printer's RAM, the temporary font could be used interchangeablely with the printer's resident ROM fonts. The result was a much faster print speed with little sacrifice in quality -- plus, one could design their own special glyphs or characters to suit their needs!
This was accomplish by a sophisticated design program included with LQMATRIX, whereby users could create and save characters or symbols on a 24 vertical by 15 horizontal grid for the ASCII locations 032–126 (although 001-127 were permitted). One could even place dots in the 14 half-positions along the horizontal.
I have cleaned-up some of the curvatures and harmonized a number of glyphs (along with outright modification of a few, like W and w), yet they still adhere to the same 24 x 15 grid. The original designs can be found beginning in the "More Latin" section. Because the characters for "left single quotation mark" and "right single quotation mark" were not present in DOS, I have "created" them here for sake of completion.
Renaissance-style Italic font, with straight capitals & old style numerals. The lower case letters are designed within a dot matrix, albeit slanted; with the uppercase letters I have deviated from this, in order to create well-proportioned Roman capitals.
Clone of Dot24Pin Sans Outline.
Still dreaming of 24-pin printers...
This original 24×15 typeface is designed around the limitations presented by the near letter quality (NLQ) output of dot matrix printers (DMPs) during the '80s & '90s. Partially inspired by J. David Sapir's DOS font design program, LQMATRIX, it could have easily been created using that program back in the day.
(The "smart phone"-looking character in the À position is simply a placeholder, used as a quick reference to set vertical height lines while FontStructing.)
This is a clone of Dot24Pin Sans OutlineDownload This Font If You Loved Scribble and Write!
V1.0 (10:13 AM Aug 22) - Initial Release
V1.1 (3:16 AM Aug 25) More Latin Added
V1.2 (9:16 PM Aug 27) A Little More Characters Added
V1.3 (7:30 AM Sep 16) Fixed The Lowercase Letter C
This is the screen font from the IBM 5100 Portable Computer. It is uppercase-only, and has a large repertory of APL-related characters as well. Of note is that no two adjacent horizontal dots are ever both active, because the font might have also been intended to be used with a dot-matrix printer.
Recreated character set of the Brother EP-20/22 Electronic Thermal Typewriter (1983).
Square-pixel variation also available.
This is a another recreation of an LCD design concept by Posy
This time it's the 3x5 Matrix Display, with all glyphs of Basic Latin supported
Also available without rounded corners
This is a clone of LCD 3x5 MatrixHere’s a Remake of the original font from the VTech Explore and Write Activity Desk’s Screen.
I tried my best fitting all the New Characters within the 7×7 Matrix, Especially with Roman Number 8. But the New Characters I Made Just for this Font
1.0 (11/08/2023) - Initial Release
1.0.1 (13/08/2023) - Added Symbols for Some Animations and an Alternate Form of J.
1.0.2 (19/08/2023) - Added The Vietnamese O and U with Horn, Three Currency Symbols and Additional Punctuation.
1.1 (22/08/2023) - Added Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic.
1.2 (01/10/2023) - Fixed some Errors, and Added Medival Variants of О and Old Italic
1.2.1 (04/10/2023) - Added Extended Old Italic, Hebrew and a Variant of Z
1.2.2 (05/10/2023) - Added Klingon
1.2.3 (07/10/2023) - Added Variants of some Latin Letters, and Extended Arabic for Bosnian
1.2.4 (08/10/2023) - Added Syriac and Fixed a Cyrillic Letter.
1.3 (10/10/2023) - Added Hiragana and Katakana
1.3.1 (13/10/2023) - Added Most of Voynichese, The First Plane F Allocation
1.4 (05/11/2023) - Added Archaic “Tsan”, a G Shaped Stigma. + a Letter for Bactrian, Coptic and Kanbun.
1.4.1 (04/12/2023) - Added more Voynichese, but it’s still not complete yet.
Private Use Area Blocks
Incomposable Numbers - F000-F00F
Various Symbols for Educational Toys - F590-F8CF
Klingon - F8D0-F8FF
Voynich - FF400 - FF51F
Suggest New Characters and Fixes for Existing Characters in the Comments!
Will (Hopefully) be Updated Frequently!