Artwiz fonts

artwiz fonts refers to a set of fonts originally created by Youngjin Hahn,^[1] an artist who was involved in the Free Software community and went by the alias "artwiz".

Described as "very small futuristic ASCII fonts for X",^[2] they are bitmap fonts, with varying styles of typefaces designed at a single pixel size.

The fonts were incorporated as screen fonts in themes for the Blackbox window manager.

The fonts

This is the list of fonts originally released:

• Anorexia (9x11 variable width)
• Aqui (12x13 variable width)
• Cure (6x10 fixed width)
• Drift (6x11 fixed width)
• Edges (5x10 fixed width)
• Gelly (9x10 variable width)
• Glisp-bold (10x11 variable width)
• Glisp (9x11 variable width)
• Kates (7x14 fixed width)
• Lime (5x10 fixed width)
• Mints-mild (9x9 variable width)
• Mints-strong (9x9 variable width)
• Nu (7x9 variable width)
• Smoothansi (6x13 fixed width)
• Snap (9x10 variable width)

Continued use

The minimalist nature of the fonts makes them popular with users of lightweight window managers^{[citation needed]}. Alec Zapka has updated the fonts to be compatible with modern software and support an extended character set.

References

1. ^ Hahn, Youngjin. "artwiz's homepage". Archived from the original on 2000-11-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20001109085000/http://artwiz.artramp.org/. Retrieved 2009-10-18. 
2. ^ Lee, Ho-seok (2001-11-02). "ITP: xfonts-artwiz -- Very small futuristic ASCII fonts for X". Debian Bug tracking system. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=117986. Retrieved 2009-10-18. 

External links

• Alec Zapka's updated versions of the fonts
• VGA fonts for X collection, another set of bitmap fonts