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Bitmap fonts for humans 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: As operating systems and GUIs have moved on to scalable vector fonts, the bitmap fonts that dominated
- I use it to store fonts of all sizes (in the obvious way) the 1980s and 1990s languish away in non-obvious and often binary formats that are rapidly falling
- The code points can be those of the original character set, rather than unicode 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/").