Futile Fonts
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Futile Fonts
Do you like fonts based on ultra-obscure 1980s LED displays, or based on ROM dumps from the Commodore 64's pen plotter? Of course you do!
I've also linked to my multi-year work-in-progress conversion of the old Hershey vector fonts to OTF. A couple of these fonts are usable, if preliminary.
Do you like fonts based on ultra-obscure 1980s LED displays, or based on ROM dumps from the Commodore 64's pen plotter? Of course you do!
I've also linked to my multi-year work-in-progress conversion of the old Hershey vector fonts to OTF. A couple of these fonts are usable, if preliminary.
Role: programmer, designer
This project was posted to MetaFilter by aniola on October 16, 2016: Futile Fonts
Thank you! What I really liked about the Commodore plotter font was that all the vector data fits into fewer than 660 bytes. Plus, it's a cool story how the data was fished out of the controller.
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