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Bitmap fonts for humans
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This repository contains bitmapped fonts from various sources, in human-readable text format.
This repository contains bitmapped fonts from disused operating systems and graphical user interfaces.
The plain-text `.draw` format is a generalisation of [Roman Czyborra's hexdraw format](http://czyborra.com/unifont/), in that:
- I use it to store fonts of all sizes (in the obvious way)
- The code points can be those of the original character set, rather than unicode
As operating systems and GUIs have moved on to scalable vector fonts, the bitmap fonts that dominated
the 1980s and 1990s languish away in non-obvious and often binary formats that are rapidly falling
into obscurity.
You can also <a href="http://robhagemans.github.io/monobit/">see the fonts as images</a>.
The main purpose of this repository is to liberate these fonts from their binary shackles,
preserving the ancient art of monochrome bitmap typography for human appreciation. I say this in jest,
but only partly.
The fonts in this repository are stored in a human-friendly text-based format. As such, the easiest way
to view them is to open the text files directly. Alternatively, you can use
[`monobit`](https://github.com/robhagemans/monobit) to render them to images or convert them to
font formats supported by current operating systems. You can also
[see the fonts as images here](http://robhagemans.github.io/monobit/").