FYI, Theiling Online just released a really nice open source, small bitmap, proportional font family that could be used for 8x8 LED matrix displays, for example. The distro has #include files for C/C++. They're available at http://www.theiling.de/projects/liquid.html .

?Liquid? Font Family for Very Small Displays

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