For the sake of my finances can you please not do cool things I want to duplicate? Thanks
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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Yeah, what a dickhead
Looks great! Can you post links to the device? And code?
Get a better take on the 5x7 font or a higher-resolution one, the ESP32 can even handle vector fonts. You're using Adafruit's objectively ugly glcdfont:

I suggest you use this one:

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This is a drop-in replacement for the array in Adafruit's glcdfont.c.
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