Hand drawn 8×8px glcdfont for QMK or other projects using GLCD and variations of it

README.md

Preview

Caveats

Follows the code page with four exceptions until 0x9A / Ü. The remaining 5 symbols are selected dithered gray scale tiles.

Glyph	Fill
0x09	Shift (replaces hollow dot)
0x0A	Control (replaces hollow dot inverted)
0x0B	Command (replaces symbol for male)
0x0C	Alt (replaces symbol for female)
0x20	Space / 0%
0x9B	12.5%
0x9C	37.5
0x9D	50%
0x9E	75%
0x9F	100%

Usage in QMK

You need to update a few macros to ensure the font gets rendered correctly.

#ifdef OLED_ENABLE
#define OLED_FONT_H "path/to/this/glcdfont.c"
#define OLED_FONT_WIDTH 8
#define OLED_FONT_HEIGHT 8
#define OLED_FONT_END 0x9F
#endif

glcdfont.c

// based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
// converted using https://joric.github.io/qle/

static const unsigned char PROGMEM font[] = {
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