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+This is sq, a 7x15 pixel font inspired by Codec and Quadraat Sans Mono.
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+I have been playing around with Chris Cannam's [Codec][1] font, when I
+noticed it looked rather similar to FF Quadraat Sans Mono, which I
+always wanted to use as a console font, at least since Octoploid made
+this [awesome screenshot][2].  But I never was confident with the
+outline font at low size, and I dislike the look of anti-aliasing.
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+I thus decided to redraw Codec with great influence of Quadraat and
+created a new, crisp 7x15 .bdf font called "sq".  Since urxvt has
+problems with emboldening, I also made a bold version and manually
+revised the characters.  The font has the full latin1 range.
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+This font is in the public domain.
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+To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived
+all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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+http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
+
+---Christian Neukirchen, May 2012
+
+[1]: http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html
+[2]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=849172#p849172
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