London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface

Re:London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface by adrianmsmith on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:42AM (#36368977)

I wish Vienna, Austria used nice fonts worth copying in their electronic signs, but alas... https://imgur.com/CQ1dYqk

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Re:London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface by jjgreen on Saturday June 17, 2023 @07:24AM (#36369236)

Oof, that's grim typography, my condolences

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Re:London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface by gareve on Saturday June 17, 2023 @08:08AM (#36369525)

thanks, i hate it

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Re:London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface by qbasic_forever on Saturday June 17, 2023 @09:22AM (#36369956)

Lol it's like each character was developed in a vacuum and someone forget to tell the W creator there was a width limit until too late. Maybe an allegory to modern corporate software development there...

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Re:London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface by mortenjorck on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:12AM (#36370879)

Wow, that looks like a scalable font was rasterized at a resolution where hinting would be required… but the font didn’t actually have hinting.

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