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Ancient Web: Millitext Squeezed Letters Into LCD Subpixels

Matt Sarnoff's 2008 Millitext experiment uses the red, green, and blue subpixels inside LCD pixels as separate drawing elements, producing text only a few millimeters tall and nearly invisible without magnification.

Ancient Web: Qalle Made Pixel Fonts Small Enough to Count by Hand

Qalle's compact pixel-font collection includes 6x6, 6x8, 6x10, 8x8, 8x10 and 14-segment character sets, permissive reuse terms and a Python image generator for working with the bitmap fonts.