Show HN: FontEdit – A desktop app to develop fonts for embedded systems displays

Re:Show HN: FontEdit – A desktop app to develop fonts for em... by viler on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:07AM (#23389743)

'FontEdit' was also the name of a program published in PC Magazine eons ago, for creating VGA text-mode fonts in executable format. There were probably others that shared the name, but that's the one I actually remember typing in from the magazine printout(!), and it's the one that got me started fiddling with fonts.

I can appreciate the naming struggle - I had to resort to calling my own editor 'Fontraption'. :)

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Re:Show HN: FontEdit – A desktop app to develop fonts for em... by RoryH on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:52AM (#23390426)

I too remember this.. back in school we used to create fonts with messed up characters (backwards/upside-down/invisible) and load them into the autoexec.bat ... Confused a lot of people.

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