The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with these systems. These days ...

American and British patents, for comparison. There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to ...

More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese. An early mock-up of a Chinese bitmap font made by the Graphic Arts ...

Pixel fonts represent an interesting era of type design. They were born out of necessity when low-res displays were the only ones around, and have now become a highly niche style of retro nostalgia.

GitHub user spacerace has dumped the system fonts of more than 240 classic computers, graphics cards, and various thin clients and POS systems. We’re talking vintage gems like the IBM 5155 Personal ...

You don't. In general, whenever you need to go from raster to vector you have to do it by hand. I'd guess that there isn't a program to take bitmap fonts and convert them to TrueType without some, or ...

I don’t particularly like my handwriting—neither did my third grade teacher. Maybe that’s why I’m attracted to professional fonts that look like handwriting. Or maybe it’s because they’re just plain ...

I have a bunch of pdf files that display with bitmap fonts, like this:<BR><BR>View image: http://andrewkish.name/BitmapFonts.gif <BR><BR>If I had the TeX source, I'd ...