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Nice! At least when used in Photoshop, the default vertical spacing is very huge, 140% of the character height. Of course that is easy to change in the program, but perhaps you can reduce the default spacing to 50% of the height or something like that.

 

 

Character map for those who are unsure:

ABCDEFGHIJKL
MNOPQRSTUVWX
YZ0123456789
!"#$%&/()+-?
^*';:_\=<>[]
`´

 

I'm not entirely sure about the outer squares on B D F V 0 2 5 etc but since the principle is that every character has a square bounding box I suppose it makes sense to have those. The letter I might want serifs even if the others don't. The letters E, F and in particular T might want to be fatter on top (and bottom) and thinner in the middle. The double quotes (second character on the fourth) needs to be redesigned, it is near impossible to understand. The minus sign (second last character on the same row) should rather look like the colon (fifth character on the last row), which means the colon and semi colon just to the left of it should have some design change. The caret is a bit tall, but on the other hand it means the four characters <^v> match together. I'm not sure about the single quote (third character on the last row), if anything the diagonal slant should be on the "pixel" to the upper right, not in the bottom left. The equals sign probably works but could also be worked on.

 

There may be glyphs I didn't try (or was unable to generate with my keyboard) but I think that is the vast majority you drew?

Edited January 28, 2021 by carlsson

Thanks for trying it. I fixed the letter T and made spacing changes on the letters. It now looks like this:

 

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