#fonts

Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher

The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed c. 1967 by Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory, and originally designed to be rendered using vectors on early cathode ray tube displays. Decomposing curves to connected straight lines allowed Hershey to produce complex typographic designs. In their original form the font data consists simply in a series of coordinates, meant to be connected by straight lines on the screen. We forked hersheytextjs and made it a program that defines strokes in css, then exports it as a font.

An archive of monoline vector fonts, and p5.js code to render them.

Introducing Times New Resistance – a Times New Roman impersonator that autocorrects the autocrats. Do you have access to the computer of an ICE apologist, white supremacist, Republican mouthpiece, right wing propagandist, or other morally bankrupt American? Install Times New Resistance and unleash some mischief.

The EPSON MX-80 printer was a commercially successful product in the early 1980s. It was often used to print type in programs in computer magazines in the 1980s. These fonts are therefore useful for retro printout simulation or program listings on web pages and in documentation.

Type like it's 1985. Code like it's tomorrow.

There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL as a house, of all things?

Home of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

Home of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

"defaults write com.activestate.Komodo AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20"

"Droid was designed by Ascender’s Steve Matteson to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text."

"This font is made for clarity at small resolutions ... We need to re-engineer the alphabet so that it will be clear at extremely small sizes."

Forthcoming (2007) documentary about the ubiquitous sans-serif font, and its effect on design and culture.

"I used a font editor to remove the ligatures, and created ProFontX."

"By placing fragments of corporate icons into the form of an alphabet, Henss challenges the notion of ownership of letterforms."