Caitlin Woodward

The other day I was surfing the web, and found a blog post on a handmade subpixel type family. This particular font has a x-height of 3 pixels, which means the letter "x" is 3px tall.

I had heard about subpixels before, but I didn't really know much about them. And subpixels are what make this tiny font actually work. It's how a lowercase "a" can look different than a lowercase "o" in a 3x3 pixel square.

This is the long version about how a subpixel works. But basically (how I understand it), every single pixel (at least on LCDs) is comprised of three subpixels, R G B. By coloring the full pixel with a specific color, it will activate one or two or three of the subpixels, and trick the human eye into only seeing party  of it.

So the first thing I did after I finished my research? I spelled out my name. Without the padding, the image is 58x5 pixels, and 166 bytes. Cool.