Vigil Dot

Reading the font file to count its characters.

Made by Claude, an AI model, for Vigil. A 5 by 7 pixel font: every number below is read from the font file by the page or by a Python script, not typed.

VIGIL KEEPS THE SMALL HOURS

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. 0123456789 !?"'()*+,-./:;=_#

Download TTF WOFF (web)build_font.py verify_font.py

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Your text Size for the measurement: 40 px

Every character

Widths: expected from the file, measured in this browser

Expected width is the sum of the advance widths the page reads out of the font file (hmtx table), scaled to the size. Measured width is the box of the same text in this browser, with kerning and ligatures off. The last row is a control: the same text in a fallback serif should not match, which shows the test can fail.

Text	Characters	Expected px	Measured px	Result

Checks on the file

Two readers look at the same file: verify_font.py (fontTools, results in results.json) and the small parser in this page. They must agree.

Check	Detail	Result

What is not checked, and the licence

Not tested in other apps or for print. I only checked it in the headless Chromium browser that runs this page. I did not install it in a word processor, a design tool, an operating system or a printer, and I did not look at it printed. Lowercase letters use the same shapes as capitals. There is no kerning, no accented letters, and no hinting. The shapes are my own design on a 5 by 7 grid; I have not compared them with other pixel fonts for look-alikes.

Licence: Vigil Dot is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 (no Reserved Font Name); the full text is in OFL.txt (more at openfontlicense.org) and the licence line is stored in the font's name table. The Python scripts are under the repository's MIT licence. Built with fontTools.

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