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What would you consider as the most recognizable bitmap fonts in tech history?
I’m imagining stuff like:
- the arcade/Atari font
- Chicago (Mac, then iPod)
- VCR/video equipment fonts
- Minecraft font
- IBM PC fonts (MDA, VGA, stuff like that)
- perhaps System font from Windows 3.x
- Commodore 64, just because of the sheer popularity of the machine
What am I missing?
@mwichary The earliest I saw was the (Navy sourced?) Bodoni vector font, which we digitized at U of Toronto for nroff on the Versatec and later resurfaced in the falsely attributed "Berkeley typesetting software". That font, or possibly someone else's digitization of it, appeared on countless graphs in science papers all through the '80s and early '90s. It was only 100dpi but was free and available.
@robpike Thanks!!! Do you happen to have an example graph like this handy? (Or a paper title to look up?) Would be great for reference.