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Damien Guard
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Damien Guard writes DamienG, a personal blog at damieng.com about programming, design and hardware. Since 2007, 76 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “Envy Code R”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Damien Guard on software development, typography, vintage computing, and .NET.
Most-linked posts?
- Envy Code R17 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2009-02-16
- Font Rendering Philosophies of Windows and OS X5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-09-30
- Typography in 8 bits: System fonts5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-01
- /blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-09-05
- Typography in 8 bits: System Fonts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-21
- ZX Origins 8x8 bitmap fonts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-06
- /blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-05
- Typography in bits: For a few pixels more2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-06
- Using variable web fonts for speed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-30
- Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-10
What Hacker News says?
That green check was in Borland Delphi too. https://damieng.com/blog/tag/delphi/
Comment linking /blog/tag/delphi/
on “Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August”Submitted Typography in 8 bits: System fonts as a story · 136 points
HN discussionI used Envy Code R [1] for many years, recently I changed to Iosevka Term SS10 [2], which is kinda same. [1] https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-co... [2] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
Comment linking /blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
on “Dev Fonts”Submitted Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011) as a story · 104 points
HN discussionI have used Sudo and Monoid for years. Other fonts I like are: - Luculent, http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/ - Envy Code R, https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-co... B612 Mono would be an excellent font if the glyphs were well aligned.
Comment linking /blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
on “Lesser Known Coding Fonts”Submitted Typography in 16 bits: System fonts (2011) as a story · 56 points
HN discussionMy own collection of free 8x8 fonts might suit your needs at https://damieng.com/zx-origins Looking forward to trying this exciting rust tool in my chain as well to see what additional formats I can include. (Update: Seems the PIFO tool is not open-source :( I guess I'll stick to using scripts + FontLab Studio 5)
Comment linking /zx-origins
on “I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust”Submitted Typography in 8 bits: System Fonts as a story · 39 points
HN discussionI'm still using Envy Code R after reading about it on some blog: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... Perfect for terminal and coding.
Comment linking /blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
on “Top Programming Fonts”Submitted Ten commandments for developers as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI like to use Code Envy R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... . It's legible at 8pt, which lets me fit big amounts of code even on smaller screens.
Comment linking /blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
on “Top Programming Fonts”Submitted Things you probably didn’t know about C# as a story · 15 points
HN discussionobviously 8x8 is comparably enormous but https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ has a great collection of fonts
Comment linking /typography/zx-origins/
on “Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)”Submitted Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat argument flounders on the fact that in the pre -VGA (more strictly pre-CGA) world boldface and blink did not change colours, either. There was a whole world of monochrome video terminals. And, furthermore, the fonts during the heyday of the home computer revolution were boldface in several cases, including the BBC Micro's graphics mode character set, even though they were smaller than 8 by 8. * https://damieng.…
Comment linking /blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts
on “Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator”Submitted DDR4 Memory Information in Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIMO what killed it was the text rendering. They brought their font smoothing over from Mac OS and that's not what Windows users are acclimated to. It might be more "correct" in some ways, especially from a graphic design / typography standpoint, but it looks fuzzy when you put it next to ClearType on the same screen. https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosoph... https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-…
Comment linking /blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x
on “How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?”Submitted My own Delphi story (2020) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> One Exemple is this myth, that OSX' font rendering is always better thant the rendering of windows' rendering because OSX applies more anti-aliasing to the fonts. As soon as you get to a certain font size - usually the one you use for articles - anti-aliased fonts are a pain-in-the-eyes. It's not quite that simple, and I'm not sure everyone would agree with that assertion. It's more to do with the fact that the fo…
Comment linking /blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x
on “Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory”Submitted The Art of Amiga Lettering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wish there were more "medium" themes. I usually find light modes too harsh, but I think that's because the background is often pure white or close to it, as opposed to something softer. I think dark modes look cooler and I like the aesthetic from an artsy perspective, but they're not something I enjoy working in all day. I like the lower contrast ones to an extent, but they're still not ideal. My preferred Visual…
Comment linking /blog/2007/10/14/colour-schemes-for-visual-studio
on “Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode”Submitted Typography in 8-bits: System Fonts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSerifs on low resolution fonts didn't gain legibility when LCD market share became dominant. > Is this even an issue? Yes, to some people on some devices. While less common than it was a decade ago, old hardware exists[1], poor quality displays exist, and broken hardware exists[2]. However, > Who only has 7 pixels for their text? Everybody that used an Apple II, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64? Most 8-bit computers in t…
Comment linking /blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts
on “Logo design trends of 2018”Submitted Typography in bits: For a few pixels more as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree that there's substantial qualitative difference between sub-pixel antialiased text and the plain render. The former takes advantage of greater lateral resolution and perceptual differences between the primary colors. That said, I wouldn't consider the absence of that technique jarring. I intentionally change bright-on-dark text to greyscale antialiasing[1], to counter the halation[2]. All the links to images…
Comment linking /blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x/
on “Fractional scales, fonts and hinting”Submitted 8 Visual Studio Debugging Tips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a sucker for these old bitmap fonts. Here's a collection of links I've bookmarked over the years: * https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys... and https://damieng.com/blog/2011/03/27/typography-in-16-bits-sy... * http://www.type-invaders.com/sinclair/8bitfonts/ * https://opengameart.org/content/the-collection-of-8-bit-font... * https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=8440 (scroll down a bi…
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/27/typography-in-16-bits-system-fonts
on “Arcade Game Typography”Submitted Typography in 16-bits: System fonts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn Windows I have been using Envy Code R http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... or Source Code Pro https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro On Mac, I use Source Code Pro or Menlo.
Comment linking /blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released
on “Collection of the best fonts for programming”Submitted Typography in 8 bits: System fonts as a story · 2 points
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