aarbrk, 26 days ago to Fonts Spanish

For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap #fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?

#typography #font #letters #lettering #history #histodons

Image credit: https://myfontlib.com/font/gorgeous-pixel-font

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jllw, 1 year ago to random

What are people's thoughts on using #bitmap #fonts in #emacs, #vim or similar?

Are there any benefits beyond the looks?

I like the simplicity of them, including that they seem quite easy to modify.

chemoelectric, 1 year ago to random

I have started a set of #pixmap = #bitmap manipulation tasks (since when do we pretend a color image is a ‘bitmap’?) with an #ATS contribution to the very first of the tasks:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Bitmap#ATShttps://rosettacode.org/wiki/Bitmap#ATS

I went back to doing things at a low level, which my readers surely will appreciate. So the code is lengthy, given what is being done.

And safety is important, so notice that if a ‘load’ fails you still get valid image data (an image filled with one color).

#ATSlang