Thanks for sharing your results, oha. Author of "PixelOperator8.ttf" has clearly put some effort into his font, so that at 8 px height text looks as good as it possibly ever can, probably. (See some comparisons below.) I just hope these 8 px are not modern display pixels, but something larger.

Your link is to outdated (and named differently) version, which produces "somewhat" inferior result. Here is better link.

Below is "screenshot" (produced in a way similar to what you did:

say $im-> getscanline( y => $_, type => 'index' ) 
    =~ tr/\0\1/O /r
        for 0 .. $im-> getheight - 1;

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, for "paletted" image 80x60, similar to what I did :) ), for these test subjects:

'10714/8bitOperatorPlus8-Regular.ttf', # Abomination from wrong link
'pixel_operator/PixelOperator8.ttf',   # Correct version
'ucs-fonts/6x12.bdf',                  # 'Fixed', from my answer above
+ 
'uw-ttyp0-1.3/genbdf/t0-12-uni.bdf',   # http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/
+~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/
'gohufont-2.1/gohufont-uni-11.pcf',    # http://font.gohu.org/

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 OOO                         OO           OO O
 O                           O O          O O       O
 O    OO OO   OO   OO   O O  OO   OOO     O O  OOO  OO
 OO     O  O  O O  O O  O O    O  O O     OOO  O    O
 O    OOOOO   O O  OOO  O O  OOO  O O     O O   OO  O
 O    OO OO   O    OO    O   OOO  OOO    OOO   OO    O
                                  OO


 OOOOO                                   OOO               OOO O
 O                                      O   O             O   O       
+   O
 O       OOO OOO   O  OO   OOO   O   O   OOO    OOOO      O  OO   OOO 
+  OOOO
 OOO        O   O  O O    O   O  O   O      O  O   O      O O O  O    
+   O
 O       OOOOOOOO  OO     OOOOO  O   O   OOOO  O   O      OO  O   OOO 
+   O
 O      O   O      O      O       O O   O   O   OOOO      O   O      O
+   O
 O       OOO OOO   O       OOO     O     OOOO      O     O OOO   OOOO 
+    OOO
                                                OOO

                                O                   O
OOOOO                          O O               OOO          O
O                               O               O  OO         O
O      OOO  O OO   OOO  O   O  OOO   OOO        O O O  OOOO OOOOO
OOOO    O O OO  O O   O O   O     O O   O       O O O O       O
O      OOO  O     OOOO  O   O  OOOO O   O       O O O  OOO    O
O     O O   O     O      O O  O   O O   O       OO  O     O   O
O      OOOO O      OOO    O    OOOO  OOOO        OOO  OOOO     OO
                                        O       O
                                 O   OOO             O
  OOOO                          O O               OOO         O
  O                              O               O  O         O
  O    OO OO OOOO   OO   O   O  OO    OOO        O OO   OOO  OOOO
  OOO    O O  O O  O  O  O   O    O  O  O        O OO  O      O
  O     OOOO  O    OOOO   O O   OOO  O  O        OO O  OO     O
  O    O O    O    O      O O  O  O  O  O        OO O    OO   O
  O    O O    O    O       O   O  O  OOOO        O  O     O   O
  O    OO OO  O     OOO    O    OOO     O        OOO   OOO     OO
                                     O  O       O
                                     OOO
OOOOO                           O                            O
O                              O O               OOO O       O
O                               O               O   O        O
OOOO   OOO  O OO   OOO  O   O  OOO   OOOO       O  OO  OOO  OOOO
O     O O O OO  O O   O O   O     O O   O       O O O O      O
O     O OOO O     OOOOO  O O   OOOO O   O       OO  O  OOO   O
O     O O   O     O      O O  O   O O  OO       OOOO      O  O
O      OOOO O      OOOO   O    OOOO  OO O             OOOO    OO
                                        O
                                     OOO

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In reply to Re^3: Tiny font by vr
in thread Tiny font by oha

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