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A tiny screen font you can actually download and use, free

A tiny screen font you can actually download and use, free

A reader who enjoyed Monday’s post about Ken Perlin’s astoundingly tiny screen font , but was disappointed to learn that the font was not available for use, wrote to point out Domenico Mazza’s “Zepto,” which is available for free over at MyFonts.com. Shown above is a comparison of Perlin’s Tiny Font to Zepto, with the same text, in the same screen area, at comparable size and density. You can see that Zepto isn’t quite as readable as Perlin’s font, but still does pretty well.

Trumer Beer Rube Goldberg machine

The Brookstone Beer Bulletin tipped us off to the fact that brewer Trumer Brauerei of Berkeley, CA, has created a fun video featuring a Rube Goldberg device made from Trumer product and paraphernalia. The Trume Pils Rube Goldberg Machine! Inspired by the Rube-Goldberg-Machine we were able to recreate the brewing process in a new way. […]