Re:Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011)
by jokoon on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:30AM
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missing: profont
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The Macintosh had a 16-/32-bit CPU, and so custom 3rd-party fonts for it do not qualify for inclusion on a page of system fonts from 8-bit systems...
I find it fits pretty well and to me it beat all the fonts listed in the article
Re:Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (2011)
by SwellJoe on Thursday May 29, 2014 @09:44AM
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How do you find it "fits pretty well"? This is an article (a quite interesting one) about system fonts for 8 bit systems. Profont is not a system font on any 8 bit system. It makes no sense to discuss Profont in this context.
http://www.tobias-jung.de/pics/profont9pt.gif
yell at me all you want, you know what I mean.
"DON'T CALL THE SKY BLUE, SCIENTIFICALLY IT HAS A CERTAIN WAVELENGTH WHICH YOU TOTALLY IGNORE"
I'm not yelling at you, and I genuinely don't know what you mean. Are you simply saying you really like Profont? It's been discussed (along with several other programmers fonts) several times over the years here at HN. I'm not being pedantic, I'm just confused why you believe Profont has any relation to 8 bit system typefaces.
This is an article about history of typefaces on early personal computers. That's a cool thing to read about. There have been similarly interesting articles about programmers fonts, and I tend to read those, too. But, it's OK for us to discuss one without pulling the other into the discussion. It's simply a non-sequiter.