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cdmackay
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Re: Stack font

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Emy wrote:
Fri May 26, 2023 9:38 am
cdmackay wrote:
Fri May 26, 2023 12:55 am
the font is one thing putting me off slightly
I'm curious; may I ask: which font, and why?
hi Emy; the font shown in on the SM DM32 page itself. It just seemed to look far too large, and clunky. It's not as much the height of the font, but the thickness of the lines.

I am used to a 5-row display on my DM42. And I'm happy to agree that the original 32SII font isn't exactly beautiful.

I think the SM dot-matrix font option as above does seem to look better. Again, it's perhaps hard to go from a picture. As Joe says, it may look better in the hand.
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Re: Stack font

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cdmackay wrote:
Fri May 26, 2023 6:03 pm
the font shown in on the SM DM32 page itself. It just seemed to look far too large, and clunky. It's not as much the height of the font, but the thickness of the lines.

I think the SM dot-matrix font option as above does seem to look better. Again, it's perhaps hard to go from a picture. As Joe says, it may look better in the hand.
I concur.
I may suggest to use the 32SII-like font for the DM32 product page.
it would look much more familiar to previous HP-32SII users, and more in line with the efforts you made to reproduce the 32SII keyboard labels so accurately (I'm thinking of the adjustments you made on it, from the last year prototype).

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Re: Stack font

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cdmackay wrote:
Fri May 26, 2023 6:03 pm
hi Emy
Hi cdmackay, thanks for elaborating. Have a good day.
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