This font is for use in e.g. embedded/FPGA/SBC projects, computer emulators, retro games.

Pros
* small memory footprint (512 8x8 characters occupy just 4KB)
* trivially scalable (from 8x8 to 8x16 or 16x16) in hardware or software, that is, this single font can be used at different screen resolutions, which is especially useful when the resolution is switchable
* decent support for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts, covering approximately 50 languages
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