Scientifica

Tall and condensed bitmap font for geeks.

Scientifica is largely based on creep, with a number of minor tweaks to improve readablity (a matter of taste of course).

Most characters are just 4px wide, which is brilliant for low dpi(90-120) displays.

What's different?

Scientifica has a bold and an italic variant.

Here are a few characters that recieved a revamp:

V, *, f, W, M, ~, & , i, t, a, (), [], {}

I have also added characters to the following unicode blocks:

Geometric Shapes
Arrows
Miscellaneous Technical
Miscellaneous Symbols
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
Private Use Area
Mathematical Operators
Box Drawings

I will be constantly adding glyphs to this font. Keep a lookout.

Screenshots

Dark background

Scientifica in the wild:

Scientifica now has most box drawing glyphs as well!

Latin, Polish, Solvakian, French, German accents included!

Powerline glyphs

Unicode Python:

Unicode C++ (Ligatures included)

Please read this for instructions on ligatures.

Light background

You're kidding me right?

Installation

Linux

Enable bitmap fonts

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10* && sudo rm -rf 70-no-bitmaps.conf && sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Get Scientifica

cd ~ 
git clone https://github.com/nerdypepper/scientifica --depth 1

Symlink it to the right folder

ln -fs ~/scientifica/regular/scientifica-11.bdf ~/.local/share/fonts/scientifica-11.bdf
ln -fs ~/scientifica/bold/scientificaBold-11.bdf ~/.local/share/fonts/scientificaBold-11.bdf

Use it. rxvt for example:

URxvt.font:xft:scientifica:size=11
URxvt.font:xft:scientifica:size=22  !for the doubled variant

MacOS

Get Scientifica

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/nerdypepper/scientifica --depth 1

Open the .dfont in the Font Book.app
(This may not always be up to date. Try downloading the .bdf and exporting it to .dfont through fontforge)
You are done, I guess ... dont have a Mac to test it out.
Submit an issue in case you face any problems, or a pull request if you would like to correct me.

TODO

Following agenda may be followed:

Add Control Pictures
~~Add all mathematical operators~~ (Almost) Done!
~~Get scientifica to work on windows~~ Done!
~~Work on a bold version (Probably never)~~ Done!
Add variants for a, i, l, 1 etc.

Credits

Most Basic Latin characters are from creep by romeovs.

Creep has been optimized for linux terminals by raymond-w-ko. Check out his version here.

Some characters are based on Lemon.

Thanks to the creators of Font Forge for, well, creating fontforge.

ftxqxd / scientifica