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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.
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This repository contains bitmapped fonts from disused operating systems and graphical user interfaces.
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The plain-text `.draw` format is a generalisation of [Roman Czyborra's hexdraw format](http://czyborra.com/unifont/), in that:
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- I use it to store fonts of all sizes (in the obvious way)
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- The code points can be those of the original character set, rather than unicode
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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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You can also <a href="http://robhagemans.github.io/monobit/">see the fonts as images</a>.
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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. I say this in jest,
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but only partly.
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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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