[HN Gopher] Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Archive Matrix
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Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Archive Matrix
Author : baruchel
Score : 55 points
Date : 2025-11-10 13:38 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| stavros wrote:
| This is a fantastic font. I'd like to do something with it, but I
| can't find a display that's low-res enough that the pixels show,
| but high-res enough that you can show a word at a decent size,
| and that you can drive the LEDs half-on as well. Does anyone know
| of such a display?
| picture wrote:
| There are modular dot shaped led matrix blocks that are
| basically LEDs under a cast piece of resin that guides light.
| They're tillable and you can drive them with an FPGA and a
| smart shift register based constant current driver. They're
| generic so you can look around online.
|
| For example: https://www.jameco.com/z/SBM-2388ASRG-RG-Super-
| Bright-8x8-Do...
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| However this is assuming your installation will be reasonably
| large. If it's too big, I recommend making your own array out
| of discrete LEDs. They sell LEDs with a built in milky diffuser
| that are suitable.
| stavros wrote:
| Oh huh, you just reminded me I actually have one of those,
| thanks!
| alexpotato wrote:
| For those that love fonts, SciFi and funny bloggers, can't
| recommend the below blog post that analyzes the various fonts in
| the movies Aliens enough:
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| https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/
|
| There are couple other posts for other movies as well.
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