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Bitmap fonts for humans
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2019-06-08 17:43:42 +00:00
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This repository contains bitmapped fonts from disused operating systems and graphical user interfaces.
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2019-04-13 08:49:22 +00:00
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2019-06-08 17:43:42 +00:00
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As operating systems and GUIs have moved on to scalable vector fonts, the bitmap fonts that dominated
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the 1980s and 1990s languish away in non-obvious and often binary formats that are rapidly falling
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into obscurity.
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2019-04-21 20:29:26 +00:00
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2019-06-08 17:43:42 +00:00
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The main purpose of this repository is to liberate these fonts from their binary shackles,
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preserving the ancient art of monochrome bitmap typography for human appreciation.
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The fonts in this repository are stored in a human-friendly text-based format. As such, the easiest way
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to view them is to open the text files directly. Alternatively, you can use
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[`monobit`](https://github.com/robhagemans/monobit) to render them to images or convert them to
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font formats supported by current operating systems. You can also
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[see the fonts as images here](http://robhagemans.github.io/monobit/).
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