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## Classic Macintosh Bitmap Typography
This is a small set of Objective-C classes that can be used for parsing font data from the original Macintosh,
and for simple rendering of bitmap text using those fonts.
and for simple rendering of bitmap text using those fonts. Rendered specimens of the full character sets of several of the original Macintosh fonts can be found in the `specimens` folder in this project.
This work formed the basis of [the article here](https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-mac-typography-archaeology-efce770da76c).
The `BitmapFont` class does the parsing into a usable object, and `SimpleBitmapRenderer` can use that to put some text on a canvas.
The `BitmapFont` class does the parsing into a usable object, and `SimpleBitmapRenderer` can use that to put some text on a canvas. In order to use this, you'll need to have original Mac `FONT` resource data, which is not currently included in this project.
*NB*: This code is reasonably durable but was create to facilitate an academic exercise.
It was not designed or written with performance or security concerns in mind, and if